What is love? Is there a difference between the way humans view “love” and the way God defines “love”? I mean if God so loved the world then why would he allow his son to be mocked, murdered & condemned? Is God’s version of love twisted? Is the human version of love correct? And what about peace? Does peace mean unity with every nation and creed? Does peace mean the acceptance of different religious beliefs? Are we to tolerate the Jezebel spirit? Should we become blended families? Should we worship alters of Baal, while we honor our God? Have we become lukewarm? Are we to water down the Word and bow down to other gods? And what about transgender? It’s does not seem to be about masculine and feminine anymore. We have opened the door to the biological through surgery and hormones. Should man become woman and woman become man? Should we blur the boundaries of what God has made? What is right and wrong? Is there really such a thing anymore? And who decides? Is it you? Is it me? Or should it be God? Why would Jesus say, “I have come to set the world on fire, and I wish it were already burning! I have a terrible baptism of suffering ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished. Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other! From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two against-- or two in favor and three against.” Luke 12:49-52 NLT Is Jesus NOT good? These words certainly don’t shout “I have Good News!” Yesterday I saw a group of women walk into a church to demand women’s rights to abort unborn children be heard. She called them haters and she called them pigs, then she said, “2,4,6,8 this church teaches hate.” The congregation who honored sanctity of life was being accused of casting out hate. She and her friends were escorted out by the police, but they turned that into a mockery! The women began stating that the cop who was black was the one who had viciously attacked. And as I stood watching in disbelief, I came to realize that she really believed it. Humanity has done a great job at twisting the definition of love, and I believe for those who have reverence for God, it is only going to get worse. In Daniel 8, the angel Gabriel said that the truth is going to be thrown down and trampled upon in the last days - it’s so important for followers of Christ to know what the Word of God says so they won’t be foolishly misled. The Lord showed me in March of 2019, that Luke 12:49-59 was for this time - and I had struggled in the spirit trying to reconcile this. How can Jesus NOT want peace? It seems to go against everything he is! Why would Jesus allow families to be divided? And why in the world did he wish the world was already burning? The Lord has been showing me that love IS seeing the plight of humanity through the eyes of His Spirit. And this is why the blood of Christ is the true meaning of unfailing love and forgiveness. It’s not human love that matters most! It’s not our definition of what it is. The Spirit of Promise is for those who believe in the Spirit of Truth. It’s God’s truth being shared IN love that transforms us! And it’s the truth being shared IN LOVE that matters most.
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