This thing Called LOVE

 

Love is a vital and indispensable ingredient when it comes to faith that produces and it should be easy enough to love until the enemy steps in. Galatians 5 and verse says Faith works by love. 

It is not news that we should walk in love. We know it and know the role love plays so why do Christians keep stumbling where their love-walk is concerned? It is easy to read your Bible and share what you read but not so easy to do what you read and shared with somebody else. Love is so powerful that a defective love-walk can destroy your health, finances, marriage, business, your relationships and everything else. 

The devil knows how important love is for your overall spiritual, mental and physical health and so he tailor-makes situations specifically to get you and hold you back. He knows you will not progress as long as you stay in strife and that the Word will not produce for you and neither will your faith work and so he is focused on keeping you in strife. 

Strife is a luxury we cannot afford. 

People have died because they were upset with someone and could not forgive them. People have gotten sick because they could not get over what somebody did to them. People's lives have been turned upside down because of offense and yet people continue to hold on to grudges, unforgiveness and strife not realizing how deadly it is. It is like playing with a venomous snake without realizing it can kill. So you walk around with the snake and it is calm and does nothing until it finally bites you. When it does, you suddenly realize this was the most venomous snake on earth and that you will die unless you can get the antivenom; and the antivenom is LOVE. 

Strife, unforgiveness, bitterness, hatred, grudges, envy, jealousy and anything that stems from a defective love-walk, will mess up your life. I shared recently about healing (Healing Bites on YouTube) and spoke about how strife causes the body to shrivel. Once we begin to walk in strife, bitterness, anger, unforgiveness, grudges and so on, it begins to affect our bodies. Yet people do not understand how deadly strife is, and so they walk in strife and think nothing of it. 

They complain and talk about those who have wronged them and hold on to those offenses and expect God to punish that person. They are happy when that person suffers some mishap and shattered when their lives appear to advance. They are hurt and angry and cannot get over what happened to them; and they struggle to move on and start afresh. They pray and pray but are stuck and the longer they stay stuck, the more they blame others. 

A defective love-walk will keep you on the same spot and will even take you back. There can be no progress when you are bitter, full of unforgiveness and grudges and while you might figure out a way to get your own back, you are the one who suffers the most. Forgiving those who hurt you is not an option!!! It is the only way forward. 

It will affect the way your body works. It will affect how your finances flow, it will affect your relationships (present and future), and make your life a living hell!!!

It is not worth it. So, FORGIVE, air your heart and let them go!!!! You will be doing yourself a world of good!!!  

Have a wonderful week.