FAITH CAPSULE: One who does not love God cannot love.

1 Corinthians 13

With faith, there is love. To love will have faith.
It is a question that Jesus will find faith when He comes back.
Luke 18:8 records, “Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
Search your heart if you love God.
Do you love God?
What does it mean to love God? The word of 1 John 5:3 identifies what it means to love God, “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.”
Keeping the command of God is keeping His commandment, the evidence of love.
One who does not love God cannot love and does not love by the standard of God.
Do you love your neighbour like yourself?
Loving your neighbour is a sacrifice, the evidence of obedience to God.
Loving God is a sacrifice.
Sacrifice is not cheap, but it is giving unto God what is costly.
King David once stated in 2 Samuel 24:24, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God with that which costs me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.”
King David was responding to Araunah, who had offered him a free land to make a sacrifice to God. The sacrifice was meant to deliver the children of Israel from death that was caused by David’s census. At that time, David’s census was against the command of God. David’s rejection of free land was a clear demonstration of what a costly sacrifice before God should be.
A costly sacrifice is a proven mark of love for God.
Sacrifice to God is worshiping God.
To be faithful to God is to worship God, and faithfulness is about loving God.
Jesus’ questioning faith is also questioning love.
He questioned, “…when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
With faith, there is love.
Is there love between children and parents, between husband and wife, between children, between neighbors, between believers?
Exchanging gifts in the name of Valentine is not a testimony of the love that Jesus wants to see when He comes.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 identifies what love should be, “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; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails…”
Worshipping God, loving God, is supposed to be a non-stop engagement when there is breath within one.
God gave a standard of acceptable love when He stated in Deuteronomy 6:5, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”
To love God means to give Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the spirit to love God with heart, soul, and strength.