“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God” (1 John 4:8).
In the Kingdom of GOD, if you ever have a reason to stop loving a particular sister or brother, it is not because your reason is genuine, but it is either because you have not taken after God’s nature, or you are not born of GOD. Love in the Kingdom of God is unconditional. Nobody merits it, we were given love freely. You and I are products, dividends of the love of GOD. (See John 3:16.)
The Bible says, "But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us [ungodly]" (Romans 5:8).
Do you understand what it means to be a sinner?
Being a sinner means being an enemy of GOD.
If we want to read the text again, it will read like this, "…while we were still enemies of GOD, God died for His enemies [God the Father gave us His only Son Jesus out of love to die and redeem us from sin]".
Tell me the only genuine reason we can ever have or find not to love others unconditionally? If you can stop loving anyone because of something he or she did to you or said about you, it is not because your reason is genuine, it is because you are not yet born of GOD.
Love is what God’s grace has made us, just like the sun has been commanded to always give its light. GOD knows we can't give or spend the love we have received in the FLESH — without Grace — that's why He left the door to the throne of Grace widely open so we can come boldly to obtain mercy and find grace to help us to love freely and adequately like our Father. You have no justifiable reason in Christ Jesus to stop loving anyone. You can’t be negative nor nurse evil in your mind towards anyone. You have to be positive toward all in your heart and mind — seek the good of all alike; salvation for sinners, a breakthrough for the needy and the oppressed, food for the hungry, provisions and raiment for the destitute, and so on.
According to Hebrew chapter 4 verse 16, the Bible says, “Let us, therefore, come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Never stop the life in you from shining, the love in you is the life of GOD. Express it, spend it, showcase it, by so doing you will experience the glory and power of the life of GOD in you. There is no genuine reason to stop to love, only the world does that. Love in the world is a trade by barter; you love for what you expect to get out of it. But in the Kingdom of God, love is the life we live, the life we have received to spend, we don't manufacture it, no, we received it from our source, GOD.
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