Thursday, December 2, 2010

Truth of FREEDOM

For you, brethren, were [indeed] called to freedom; only [do not let your] freedom be an incentive to your flesh and an opportunity or excuse [for selfishness], but through love you should serve one another. 14For the whole Law [concerning human relationships] is complied with in the one precept, You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself     Galatians 5:13-14

Since we are called to freedom we can ultimately do what we want to do and how we want to do it.  However, we should not use this freedom as a license to treat others badly or to justify our behavior and do  what WE feel like doing. 

Our Freedom is  from mindsets, how we were taught or raised or learned- worldly rules of how to act and react, Free from mistreatment or judging others and ourselves.

  We are free to love unhindered just as God so loves the world (while we were yet sinners) He GAVE us Love, His son Jesus, and Jesus is our example of unselfish love.

Friends Lets focus today on what's in us.  Gods love is in us.  Here's what it looks like:
 endures long and is patient and kind
never is envious nor boils over with jealousy,
 is not boastful or vainglorious,
 does not display itself haughtily.    
It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride);
 it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly.
                Love (God's love in us)
does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking;
it 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]
does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, 
bears up under anything and everything that comes,
 is ever ready to believe the best of every person,
its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].
         GODS Love Never Fails     

             THIS IS IN YOU!!! 
Use your Freedom to Choose this today!