LoVe

I have read a book called, “Compelled by Love” by Heidi Baker and recently watched the movie called, “Furious Love.”  Between these two I have been challenged in my thinking.  I have been challenged by, you guess it, love.  However, it is not my love but God’s love.  I have learned that it is through my love of God that I love His people.  I cannot love in my own understanding, I cannot love in my own strength, but I need to love with His love.

I am finding out that it is not necessarily how to become more powerful or even how to reach more people for the Kingdom of God, although those are results of walking this calling out.  What I am learning is that to love God is to love His people.  That it really is not about drawing more attention to your services or how many people you lead in the salvation prayer.  Yet, it is about me loving God’s people because of your love for Him.  That through that true love people are changed and transformed.  

I am learning that this is how I can handle going country to country, ministry to ministry.  A major question that my team and I have asked is “Did we really do anything lasting in this place?”  If we shared the love of Christ then the answer is a resounding “Yes!”  In the same breath if we only served out of obligation and not love, we might as well as not have gone.  It is really that simple.

Coming into the race I did not have the mindset, I made it all about me.  It was about how can I love these people, how can I serve these people, how can I?  When really it is about God how are you going to reveal Yourself to Your people, and teach me how to love Your people with Your love.

It is through my love of God that I am able to love His people.  I cannot love in my own understanding, I cannot love in my own strength, but I need to love with His love.  It is impossible to do it any other way, if it were up to me I would fail each and every time.  

God’s love triumphs all and it is only through Him that we can truly love others.