quarta-feira, 22 de maio de 2019

THE NARROW PATH TO RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD - DAY 116

by Rev. Robert John Cericola, Carroll, OH - EUA  

Meditation 116

The Lens of Love


Philippians 1:9-10 (AMP) And this I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more and extend to its fullest development in knowledge and all keen insight [that your love may display itself in greater depth of acquaintance and more comprehensive discernment], So that you may surely learn to sense what is vital, and approve and prize what is excellent and of real value [recognizing the highest and the best, and distinguishing the moral differences], and that you may be untainted and pure and unerring and blameless [so that with hearts sincere and certain and unsullied, you may approach] the day of Christ [not stumbling nor causing others to stumble].

As we are changed inwardly into the image of Jesus Christ love for God and others flourishes, and our discernment of what really matters in life increases. The lens of love brings into focus the cruelty and devastation of sin as, well as the redeeming, merciful, gift of salvation   extended to all in this dark and dying world through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 

As we progress along the Narrow Path Christ begins to reveal the Father’s heart for His saved and lost children. Father’s heart desire is to mold those that have received salvation into true sons that worship Him by regulating their lives according to His word and use their lives to draw those trapped in the webs of sin to Him.

Ending Thoughts
Your progress in Christ is revealed by how you view the lost.  Do you see those caught in the web of sin as needing salvation? Does their need move you to tell them about Jesus Christ? If so, the molding process is progressing in you. If not, your lenses need more cleansing which is accomplished by yielding your life to His commandment to love.

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