Good Morning Ya’ll, 

This week’s message will be a product of lesser time, but with no loss of sincerity…

We’ve been taking a good long look at love in Biblical terms, Godly expressions, and Christian experience. It is my hope that some of you have begun to comprehend that true love is a rich and matchless reality, manifested in various expressions of thought, word, and deed. 

True love is of God and He enables His children (born-again believers) to love in the ways He loves. In your encounters with people, such expressions of love as a pattern of life (as we have so far covered) are a ready indicator for you to know the believer from the hypocrite.

Here’s another manifestation of love…

1^st Corinthians 13:7a

Love… believes all things…

Believing something means you trust that something (or Someone) completely by faith. If I believe the word of God, then I am trusting what He says is the truth… and my trust is built upon my faith in God.

Contrastingly, if I don’t believe the word of God, then I am not trusting what He says is the truth, and my not trusting is built upon my doubting of God.

For some people, seeing is believing. “I’ll believe it when I see it.” This faith in the visual is really a shallow, man-centered faith. Watch this…

John 20:29b

…Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.

Now what about the “all things”?

The verse that immediately popped into my head has a great answer!

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

The good, the bad, and the ugly… everything that you encounter on a daily basis all your life-long… I think this is what is meant by “all things”.

Those people who love God, believe all things happen according to His will. This is how we can honestly say, “Thanks be to God”!

**Comments/ questions/ testimonies/ objections most encouraged!

Dear Lord, thank you for this time to consider Your word and Your ways. May our thoughts, words, and deeds bring You glory… and glory to You alone. –Amen

Peace,
Jim