FAITH CAPSULE: Do you live life for God?

1 Corinthians 13

All man should have faith to love as commanded in the word of God.
Do you love others as commanded in the word of God?
Have you taken some time out to search your heart if indeed you love God? Do you love God?
What does it mean to love God?
1John 5:3 identified what it means to love God, “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.” To be Keeping God’s commandment is the evidence of loving God.
With sacrificial commitment, obedience to God’s commandment is possible.
Loving God is a sacrifice.
Sacrifice is not cheap but it is giving unto God what is costly.
King David demonstrated what costly sacrifice before God means, 2 Samuel 24:24 records, “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.” David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.” The buying the threshing floor instead of accepting it free from Araunah, was David’s effort to sacrifice before God.
The sacrifice was meant to deliver the children of Israel from death that was caused by David’s census of Israel, against the command of God. David’s costly of sacrifice before God is a proven mark of love for God.
Sacrifice to God is worshiping God with love.
To be faithful to God is worshiping God, faithful is about one’s love for God. Jesus’ question about faith is a question about love. He questioned, “…when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”  With faith, there is love, without faith there will be no love.
Do you have faith? Do you have a love for others?
Is there love between children and parent; between husband and wife; between children; between neighbors between believers?
Without having faith in the word of God, the love commanded by God will not be in place. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 records God’s love, “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…”
Worshiping God, loving God is supposed to be a continual way of life before God.
God did not just ask for love rather He gave us 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 our all.
Through the pages of the Bible, men, and women that gave self to love according to God’s command were able to live life for the glory of God.
Abraham, Joseph, Daniel, and other giants in the hand of God loved God with all their heart, soul and strength. Truly, one with love for God are with faith to love all man.

Prayer for today: Ask for hand for you to live life by His word.