[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: The love of Christ compels me

Read: 1 Corinthians 13:1-8

Meditation verse:

“For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if one died for  all, then all died” (2 Corinthians 5:14).

As the world celebrates love on this day, let’s remember that love is not just a  feeling. It is an action. It is a strategy for obtaining peace, mending broken  relationships, overlooking offences, and building better relationships with  others. Where words fail to bring the desired results, love will succeed. Love  covers a multitude of sin and answers to several life issues.  

John 3:16 says “for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,  that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. In 2 Corinthians 5:14-15, Paul the Apostle said, “for the love of Christ compels us,  because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all,  that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died  for them and rose again”. Let the love of God be your focus of celebration this  day. Let it permeate your whole being. Let it determine your choices, attitude,  perspectives, speech, character, and actions, not just for today but all the days  of your life.  

Here’s the God Kind of love: 

“Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is  not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked,  thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all  things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Corinthians 13:  4-7). 

This type of love is not self-seeking, manipulative, or exploitative!

IN HIS PRESENCE is written by Pst (Mrs) Oke Chinye, Founder of The Rock Teaching Ministry (TRTM).

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