MISSION:LOVE 3
At times the term love is misapplied. People are said to love everything from fame, fortune, power, prestige to the latest fashion, movie, TV show, rock star or novel. These are false loves when they’re based in a compulsion or a sense of greed. Compulsion and greed focus our energies on the acquisition of things as a means of satisfying ourselves. We are shaped by what we love, even when these are false loves. In false love the spirit withers. In true love we find life and peace. Since God is a God of steadfast love and faithfulness, we too are called to walk in this kind of love, especially with regard to our enemies and those who hurt us. It is then that we experience a fellowship in the suffering of Messiah (Phil. 3:8-11) that results in eternal life.
He drew a circle that shut me out
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout
But Love and I had the wit to win
We drew a circle that took him in!
Even though love often disappoints us from every direction, in the end love will triumph.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I might not so much
Seek to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love,
For it is in giving that we receive
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
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