Four things about LOVE :
(Rev Hicks)
1) ORIGINATOR- Love is an originator. If you feel someone doesn't like you, start looking at them through God's eyes of LOVE. Think up something special you can do for them to show the
LOVE of God to them.
(My thoughts)
This one is really easier said than done because OUR name always gets in the way of his will.
When we feel someone doesn't like us or says something bad, it hurts our feelings and we lose sight of his love and can't look beyond the fault of people and see the need. We feel like we deserve better but didn't Jesus deserve better? HE had his beard ripped out and was spat upon and still said "Father forgive them for they know not what they do" He is our example.
2)Negotiator-Think of what to say (with LOVE), ways to show kindness,etc.
(My thoughts)
Acts of kindness goes so far. Lord teach me to be kind. This is hard too, sometimes it is easy but when you are having a bad day, it can be hard to be kind.
3) Reconciler- It brings people into agreement. She quoted the scripture "Whatsoever things are true... etc. think on these things.
(My thoughts)
This is the thing with this, we have to be determined not to know anything but Jesus and him crucified. The enemy blinds us of the good things that have been said and done and only slams us with the hurtful things that have been said about us and that is hard to deal with. But when we dwell on the good things then we can be reconciled together, it is just being determined not to know and becoming small and not letting our name get in the way of his.
Remember if we walk in the light as he is in the light then we have fellowship one with another.
4) Redeemer- Love finds a way
(My thoughts)
Probably my favorite of them all because when you are at your end and feel lost and thrown out, Love can always find a way. There is nothing that we have done or have not done that could make us unworkable. I am thankful that when people find you unworkable, that Jesus can still look beyond the fault and see the need and raise you up above all your humanity and still find us workable. God has a great work that needs to be done and the enemy is mad and stirs things up to prevent this work from being done. In the end he is a liar and the loser. God's will will prevail and I'm excited to be a part of it.
I want you all to know that I love you . I am not perfect but I am sincere. I hope these notes blessed you as much as they have me. Where would we be if not for GRACE?
