And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him (1John 4:16).
The Master’s parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32 reveals the Father’s unconditional and Perfect Love. In that story, after the prodigal son had spent all his father gave him on riotous living, the Bible records that he later scrambled for food with swine. One day, he suddenly came to himself and decided to go back to his father (Luke 15:17-18).
As soon as his father saw him from afar, he rushed out to embrace him. The first thing he told his father was, “Forgive me,” and his father did! This describes the Perfect Love nature of our heavenly Father towards us. Once you repent and say, “Father, forgive me for what I did wrong,” He is quick to forgive because it’s His nature to do so. The young man’s father killed his “ fatted calf” to celebrate his lost son’s return; an action that paralleled God’s sacrifice of His only Son, Jesus, for our salvation.
When a believer who has strayed from the truth returns to God, He receives him gladly and establishes him in the right path. The believer will not be anything less in God’s hand; God would place him in his rightful place— an heir of the kingdom. This is why as a child of God, you should take advantage of the Father’s Perfect Love; rejoice daily in His love, for He loves you unconditionally.
PRAYER
Dear heavenly Father, thank you for your Perfect Love; thank you for your kindness and your mercies toward me; They are from everlasting to everlasting. I rejoice exceedingly today, knowing that your love for me is unending and perfect. I will today manifest your love to my world, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
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John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Luke 6:27-31 (N.I.V.)
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‘You who hear me,’ means those who are listening,understanding and doing that which Jesus commands! The word love must be understood in its classic Christian sense as ‘agape’ (awestruck; astonished; overwhelmed; divine).
Another way of putting it of course is having a genuine concern for someone else irrespective of his or her physical attractiveness, or of the likelihood of some reciprocation in kind (unconditional). Jesus spells out the specifics: In the first instance apparently no physical harm has been done so the response need not be physical but we would pray for the offender. If being struck on the cheek is an actual physical assault then the injunction is directed to those who really desire to live as the sons of the Most High (Luke6:35). The statement, ‘if someone takes your cloak,’ may refer to a direct robbery although this passage implies that the person has need of your cloak. This passage relates not so much to passivity in the face of evil but to genuine concern for other people’s needs being met. Inevitably to refrain from returning evil for evil, often means suffering evil. This was indeed the path taken by our Lord Jesus who prayed for his enemies and also died for them!
In Jesus' pure and perfect love!
Thank you Sir, This is really inspiring...God bless you
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