The Lord said this to me this morning:
When you love others, you are loving Me.
I was distraught about a situation.
It is very cumbersome and has the fingerprints of Satan all over it.
The people involved are who I was praying for.
I was thinking of how I wasn’t elevating God in that moment.
But I was.
I was bringing before His throne this convoluted mess of a situation
and I was more than bothered.
God in His kindness and mercy showed me how much He loves those people,
even the ones doing the despicable things.
The things nightmares are made of.
The cruelest type of human you have heard about.
Sometimes we forget what we know.
We forget what the Lord has taught us and what His word says even when we know it.
We get caught in the emotion of what we see in front of us.
it’s a good thing the Holy Spirit is always there for us, to remind us of the Word of God.
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar:
for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen,
how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 1 John 4:20
Without love, we are clanging cymbals and noisy gongs.
We need to keep our love warm.
To be like the Good Samaritan, loving and caring for others.
And do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, not for any other honor or recognition, then, He will be pleased.
And Jesus will say to us whether our deeds be good or evil:
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matthew 25:40
I’d like to think that I have only done goodness and mercy toward others with God’s love,
but I know I have failed the Lord many times and not loved others as He would have preferred me to.
Onward.