Today's "From Faith To Faith" by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland is an excellent reminder for us to ALWAYS choose to walk in love! Love NEVER fails (1 Corinthians 13:8)!
A Healthy Dose of Love
Love...is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no
account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. 1 Corinthians 13:4-5,
The Amplified Bible
Walking in love is good
for your health. Did you know that?
It’s true! Medical
science has proven it. Researchers have discovered that hostility produces
stress that causes ulcers, tension headaches and a host of other ills.
Now when you think of
hostility, you may think of the type of anger you feel when something serious
happens. But according to the experts, that kind of thing isn’t what causes the
worst problems. It’s the little things: when the dry cleaners ruin your
favorite outfit, for example. Or when the cafeteria lady puts gravy on your
mashed potatoes after you’ve specifically told her not to. Sound familiar?
Just think how much
stress you could avoid by being quick to forgive, by living your life according
to 1 Corinthians 13 and not counting up the evils done to you. Imagine the
physical and emotional benefits of living like that!
If you’ve allowed
yourself to be habitually bound by hostility, that may sound like an impossible
dream, but it’s not! Because as a born-again believer, you have the love of God
inside you.
If you’ll yield to
that love, it will set you free. Remember when Jesus called Lazarus forth from
the grave? He was alive but still bound in the grave clothes. Jesus commanded
the bindings to be loosed so that Lazarus could be free to walk.
Jesus wants that same
kind of freedom for you. So get into agreement with Him. Say to those deadly
habits that have you bound, “In the Name of Jesus, loose me and let me go! I’m
putting hostility, unforgiveness and selfishness behind me. I’m going on with
God. I’m going to live the life of love!”
Remember: It doesn’t
take a medical miracle to turn your life around. All it takes is a decision to
yield to the force of love. Do it today!
AMEN! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "Greatest of These":
Shalom in Him!
