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While Knowledge
Makes Us Feel Important,
It Is Love That Strengthens The Church
Scripture
But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that strengthens the church. 2 Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn’t really know very much. 3 But the person who loves God is the one whom God recognizes.
Observation
It
is easy to criticize. It is easy to act like a know it all. It is easy to blame
people.
But
it is love that strengthens the church, the body of Christ!
Finding
fault, trying to worry about the speck in someone else’s eye when you have a
log in yours, is no way to strengthen the church.
Don’t
do it and don’t listen to other people who do!
I
caught myself listening to a negative person one time early in my Christian
life and before I knew it I was having negative feelings toward my pastor and
none of what the fellow was saying was true. I have learned to steer clear of
people like that and/or confront them in love when I see that they are on a
mission to tear down and destroy.
May
I add that you better learn to steer clear of people like that too!
It
is love that strengthens the church.
When
was the last time you went out of your way to write your pastor and his wife to
let them know how much you loved, supported, and appreciated them? Maybe they
need a hug from us today!
I
very much appreciate and love our Pastor, Pastor Bruce Moore and his wife
Heather and their 3 beautiful children. I know and understand just how
difficult the ministry is for them.
It
is love that strengthens the church!
Application
I
am a not a know it all. I will try to love those at church and those in my
sphere of influence rather than finding fault with them. How about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, show me the log or the beam in my eye before I try to help someone with
the speck in his or her eye. Give me the capacity to love people just because I
am supposed to love them and help me not to expect them to necessarily love me
back. Help me to love them like You love. Give me Your Heart for them.
I
am reminded of what You said in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not
jealous or boastful or proud
[5]
or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps
no record of when it has been wronged.
[6]
It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
[7]
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through
every circumstance.”
Daily Bible Reading: Joshua 15,16,17; 1 Corinthians 8
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