THE ONLY TICKET
1John 3:13-24, 4

This is what Paul had to say to every Bible-believing, born again Christian: “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.” (1 Corinthians 13:1-3) Clearly the only ticket to Heaven is love. Ask God to make you what takes for you not to miss the calling that He has placed upon your life and to live to the fulfillment of your destiny. We are the clay and He is the Potter. Isaiah 64:8, “But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of your hand.” As people who have accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior, it might be challenging to be able to identify why or what we need Him to make us for. Among an area that we certainly need to request for is the area to love one another. Paul prayed it in 1 Thessalonians 3:12-13, “And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you, so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.” This prayer of Paul is pointing out that it is not until we increase and abound in love to one another that our hearts will be established blameless in holiness before God. A failure to love is absence from God. Also, it could be impossible to be right with God if we are not right with man. If we fail in loving each other, the chances of loving God, who made man in His own image, could be impossible. Paul’s prayer is a serious prayer that needs to be taken to the heart. Love is what fulfills the whole law of God.  John mentioned in 1 John 4:8, “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” As a believer, is there any suggestion of shortcut in your life to get to Him by not forgiving and moving forward in love with those who fault you? This is what Peter had to say to us in 1 Peter 4:8, “And above all things have fervent love for one another, for love will cover a multitude of sins.”  

Prayer for today: Let God know that you want to be a vessel of honor. Ask Him to make you because determination to make yourself will not prevail.