Be careful
There are things we can do
that can block God’s love from flowing through us
What might those things be?
Here is a short list
which will give you a taste of detestable things in God’s sight
If you choose to participate in these or similar things,
you may block God’s love from flowing through you:
Unforgiveness
Hatred
Jealousy
Covetousness
Arrogance, pride
Ignoring the cry of the poor
Not honoring the widow and the orphan
Hands that shed innocent blood
Lying
Bearing false witness
Impure intentions
Provoking your children to anger, or provoking anyone to anger
Causing strife, dissensions, especially between the brethren
Refusing to honor God
Refusing to love the brethren
Refusing to love your enemies
Calling evil good and good evil
Loving the world
Loving money
Not obeying God’s commandments
Refusing to love your brother as yourself
Refusing to honor your mother and father
Adultery
Leading others astray
Feet that run to mischief
A heart that entertains wicked imaginations
Haughty eyes
Acts of the flesh
Sexual immorality
Impurity
Debauchery
Idolatry
Witchcraft
Discord
Fits of rage
Infighting, factions
Man’s Doctrine
Selfish ambition
Envy
Drunkenness
There is no end to the evils that will stop God’s love
We can ask Him to free us and to wash our sins with His blood
This is a work that may take time to overcome
He will be with us every step of the way
as long as we bring our weaknesses before Him,
so that we may be useful to Him
to flow in Jesus’ love toward God and toward others
Scriptural References:
These six things doth the Lord hate, yea,
seven are an abomination unto Him:
a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running to mischief,
a false witness that speaketh lies,
and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Proverbs 6:16-19
This I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;
and these are contrary the one to the other,
so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are these:
adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, quarreling, rivalry, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like.
About these things I tell you again, as I have also told you in times past,
that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:16-21
But ye have not so learned Christ,
if so it be that ye have heard Him
and have been taught by Him as the truth is in Jesus:
that ye put off, concerning your former manner of living,
the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and that ye put on that new man,
which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Therefore, putting away lying, let every man speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down on your wrath,
neither give place to the devil.
Ephesians 4:20-27