Love Is The Greatest!

Stand in the presence of the Holy Almighty God and answer this question truthfully- how many people do you love inside and outside your church?

God established his church, his family in Jesus Christ his son, our Saviour at the cross because God the Father loved us.

Throughout the Bible, God's Words constantly remind, teach and command us to love each other. God built his church, his family with love- today how are we building God's church? Do we love someone in our midst today? We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God and God lives in them. 1 John 4:16

If we are not loving anyone, then how can we be helping God build his family? It is easy to say I Love You and almost impossible to convert that faith to deeds in love!

Remember to love someone with the same love that God loves you in his son Jesus at the cross. You may like to read 1 Corinthians 13: 1-7 to fully comprehend how God define his love. Or to summarize in one sentence: We must love our neighbors like we love ourselves.

If God's love is not present in our assemblies and gatherings, then what is the purpose of church, if I may ask? When we address each other as brothers and sisters in Christ, how do we support that relationship? How do outsiders view and perceive the family of God if we don't endorse his love for us at the cross in our assemblies and gatherings?

Church means people can confidently walk into God's family and know that God is there for them. Church means worshipping God by totally trusting in his son Jesus Christ. A church is a representation of God's family living together in his love and this love is forever outpouring.

If love is absent in our hearts, how can we be knitted into the bigger body of love which is Christ?

The next time when you walk into the church, God's family, ask yourselves whether you have fulfilled Christ's commandment to love each other and if you have not, then maybe ask God in Jesus name in prayers to help you commit to truthfully love someone in the church. Love this person as you would have this person love you. If we care and love each other, then the church will grow on Christ love.

Unbelievers within us will witness this phenomenal relationship in our assemblies and will acknowledge that our Jesus is a gift expressing God's love to us when we were still sinners!

Perhaps we should consider God's promises concerning his love for us in Romans 8: 35-39, Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean Jesus no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threathened with death? as the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed everyday; we are being slaughtered like sheep." No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separates us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow- not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. No power in the sky above or in the heavens below- indeed , nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

May God the Father who is in Christ Jesus fill us with His love to fill this loveless world with his amazing unfailing love.