How's Your Love Life?

John 13:34-35--KJV--A new commandment I give unto you, That Ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35--By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, If ye have love one to another.

Galatians 5:6--KJV--For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

As you may remember, when Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment, He answered by giving them the greatest two commandments. (Matthew 22:37) He said that the greatest commandment was to love God with all of your heart, soul and mind. The second was to love your neighbor as yourself.

Paul wrote that nothing matters to God except faith that works by love. The Greek word for "worketh" that Paul used is "energeo". Do you Start Trek fans recognize that word? How many times did Captain Kirk give the command "energize"? And when he said it, any number of things would change in just a moment of time.

Paul found out the source of Jesus' great power. It was His ability to love every sinner with the same hot, passionate love that He loved His Father and He loved His closest friend with. No matter what the sinner was guilty of, Jesus was able to look past it with agape love and minister to the need of the moment.

Let's put this into practical application. How about your spouse? Are you able to overlook the things they have done to you and love them as passionately as you would a brand new baby? How about the president of the land? Or the members of Congress? Or the Supreme Court? Or the drunk on the street? Or the guy that just murdered 20-30 people?
How about that person of a different color? Nationality? Religion?

My friends, revival has not come because of a lack of power. All power in Heaven and earth has been given to us. Revival has come because we are still holding EVERYBODY accountable for their sins when Jesus told us plainly that we should love our neighbors as ourselves.

It would behoove us to recheck our love lives. There will be no "earth shaking, life changing" outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our lives until their comes an "earth shaking, life changing" love walk among the Christians.

I don't know about you, but I'm changing my attitude and my heart. I want my faith to be "energized".