FAITH CAPSULE: Desire for loving God, and search God diligently.
1 John 4
Loving God is a must to live for God. Do you have desire to love God? Desire to love God is to have the love of God deposited in your Heart. God sees all hearts under heaven.
Obeying God fully is inhabited in loving God indeed and in truth. God did not design loving one another for man to be foolish but for man to demonstrate man’s love for God. Word of God for us to love Him also speaks out what not to love. It is written, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” (1John 2:15-17)
Evidently, man that is not in the word of God is in the world living the world. One that is in the world belongs to the world. Are you the world by way of living? Are you a friend of the world? Living as the world or taking a position as the world is taking a position as the enemy of God. The book of James 4:4 stated, “Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” The world is not a position where loving one another as commanded by God because the system of the world aligns with Satan and opposes God and Jesus. True believer of God should not love false god’s society(culture) and false values (morals) of this wicked world.
Loving one another is the evidence of one is loving God. Without doubt, not to love God is to be placed under curse as stated in 1 Corinthians 16:22, “If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. O Lord, come!” Will you desire to love God? With determination, Peter denied Christ. (Mark 14:31) With determination to love God is a failure possibility. With prayer for heart’s direction into the love of God is possible. It was prayer that answered in Peter’s life not to become a victim of failure for his denial of Christ. Pray to love God by loving one another as stated in 2Thessalonian 3:5, “Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.”
Loving God as commanded by God is way to live for the glory of God. Meditate within your heart, desire for loving God, and search God diligently. Live life for God!
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to love Him according to His word.