AWE-INSPIRING!
Brad Reiches
Jun 14 2007 02:45AM

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Thursday, June 14, 2007
GodThoughtsWired!

"AWE-INSPIRING!"

"Love...does not take into account a wrong suffered."

1 Corinthians 13:5

I've found it to be one of the most wonderful, powerful, and "awe-inspiring" realities of the indwelling presence of God...this kind of love.  To be free of ALL bitterness, resentment, and unforgiveness is truly "other-worldly.  I've been basking in this specific aspect of love for more than nine years now...It's an entirely different life.

How is this love "accessed?"  Great question!  Important question.  It's certainly not available in the flesh, as I said, it is "other-worldly."  This kind of love is only found in God, and in  those that allow God to love through them.  It is the love of the Father.  "For God so loved the world..." (see John 3:16).  It is the love that Jesus modeled.  "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing" (Luke 23:34).  And it is the love of the Holy Spirit.  "The fruit of the Spirit is love..." (see Galatians 5:22-23).

Thus, the way to walk in the love that "does not take into account a wrong suffered," is to "walk by the Spirit."

"But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you

will not carry out the desire of the flesh."

Galatians 5:16

The "awe-inspiring" power of the Holy Spirit resides inside all who have truly placed their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.  Thus, the "other-worldly" potential to "walk by the Spirit and not carry out the desires of the flesh," and love in such away that is willing to forgive everybody of everything...all the time.

I call that "AWE-INSPIRING!"

 

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