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LOVE FOR ALL
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Love is the only thing that will remain,
No matter where evil tries to hide,
God is using all for his glory, bringing ALL into HIS light,
We will worship and praise His Holy Name,
If thinking men were able to figure it all out,
We would have no need for FAITH,
If every good intention was pleasing in God’s sight,
We would have no need for GRACE,
Love is the only thing that will remain,
Everything else will fall away,
Skeletal remains of all the lies,
When we stand before Jesus our Loving King,
Which one of us can claim to have been a true saint?
We all fall short no matter how hard we try,
Does everyone know that he loves us all the same?
Who is worshiping more, who is hurting him less
Who will not reach heaven is not for us to proclaim
Or guess,
Our efforts are wasted on anything that is not of love,
Press close, press close to Jesus,
Love is the only thing that will remain,
No matter where evil tries to hide,
We can see each other with LOVE only through Jesus’ eyes,
It is within His LOVE that we come humbly to seek God’s face,
It is not because we are “deserving” of God’s grace,
It is within His LOVE that we can have a servant’s heart,
It is within His LOVE that we do not tear each other apart,
Love is the only thing that will remain,
Faith and works, gentle love and understanding
(Proverbs 25:21-22)
"If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to eat;
and if they are thirsty,give them water to drink;
for you will heap coals of fire on their heads,
and the LORD will reward you."
The Bible clearly teaches that evil is a temptation for us all.
In Matthew 7:4-5 Jesus says, "How can you say to your neighbor,
‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye?
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see
clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye."
This teaching reflects the message of the ancient prophets,
who proclaimed God’s love for all peoples and not only for the Israelites.
We must see the evil in what we are doing, if we are to help others overcome
the evil they are doing.
The truth we must now face is that we are so obsessed with the evil others are doing
that we are unable to see the evil we are doing.
When we see only our own goodness, but see those we fear as only evil, then we do evil.
And until we see the evil we are doing, we cannot hope to overcome the evil done by others.
Therefore, we must now acknowledge and repent of our own evil,
so the power of goodness might do its work through us.
Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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