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FREED TO LOVE
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I
remember the sad account of a young lady who went to visit a pastor and as they
talked, she cried out in desperation, but,
pastor, I CANNOT love! This dear lady was brought up in a home in which she
was shown very little if any love from her family. The Bible teaches us that we
believers can only show love because God in Christ has first loved us. We as fallen sinners are incapable of producing
genuine love as God gave to us in Christ unless we first receive God’s love to
us. No wonder our world is so full of hate and discord, it is filled with
sinners who have rejected God’s love and therefore are not able to love one
another.
Yet
into this cold and cruel world of sin, the Lord sent His Son who was so full of
love that He cried out as we were crucifying Him for His Father to forgive us!
(See Lk.23:34) This lost and dying world needs to see and experience the love
of God desperately, and those of us who have received the grace of God in
Christ can let Christ in us flow from our deeds to the lost.
This love needs to be seen not only in the world, but
first and foremost in the first institution established in this world even
before sin entered in, and that is the home.
The BBN BI has a great Bible course to offer in our free online Bible Institute
titled Love in the Home taught by Dr.
Richard Strauss. Dr. Strauss shares compassionate Bible truth to assist
believers in showing God’s great love in their homes so that it can then flow out
to others who desperately need genuine love. As Dr. Strauss says, once we are in Christ by faith, we are freed
to reach out in love to others. Love
in the Home is course number 20300 in the BBN Bible Institute. May the Lord
bless you as you study His Word!
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Written By:
David Wyatt
Date Posted:
10/20/2008 12:15 PM
Number of Views:
7292
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