God's Healing Love

Sunday, February 11, 2024

Good morning, Lord

Verse of the Day:    1 Corinthians 13:4-5

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

Memory verse: Romans 8:32 ►He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

Today's reading: LEVITICUS 11-12 MATTHEW 26:1-25

The Healing Of God's Love

1 Corinthians 13:6-8 says,

 6 "it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends"(fails).

Love bears all things. Love conceals and covers or protects. The word in the Greek means to cover with silence. No loud argument or words, in the truest of loves, are spoken. A cover of silent patience is God's love.

Love believes all things. Love has faith and is the truest of faiths. All of God's perfect love is entrusted to us as ours should be to our neighbors. We are to unconditionally trust and be in control of our emotions to the point where we do not lose control of our tempers at human disappointment. We trust that we and others will eventually come around and understand the truth.

Love hopes all things. Again, trust is in the translation along with being able to hope for or expect. We put ourselves out there-hoping and expecting love to be returned knowing, in truth on this earth, it may not be. We know that the love of God will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. God gave Christ Jesus knowing some would accept it and some would reject it. We must give our love in the same way.

Love endures all things. God has 'long-suffered' mankind through thousands of years of sin and depravity and He has never lost hope in us because love always hopes and endures. Loving parents believe in their children and always hope the best for them. We must never lose hope in those who we allow to anger us the most. We must never give up on those who betray our love from God's heart.

1 John 4:19 "We love because he first loved us."

Love never ends or fails...love never dies. It has come from God's heart. It is perfect and eternal. The love we have goes on forever because it came from God's heart and His love is forever. The love you have, shaped in the personality God has given you will not stop when your body dies because it came from God's heart first. Your love lives on because God's love is eternal.

We have endless love to give. If we have been disappointed by others over the years, God's love heals if we allow it. God's love heals all. Time does not heal all wounds-God's love heals all wounds of every emotional and spiritual kind.

The Holy Spirit never stops-never gives up on us-He is relentless.

...because He loves us...

Father in Heaven,

I am resentful of some. I hold things against some. Forgive me and teach my heart and mind true love from Your heart.

Loving and patient Father!

In the name of Jesus,

Amen