The Greatest Of These Is Love

Yesterday was a day filled with mixed blessings. As I attended a funeral I was handed the most beautiful pink rose. I was able to hold onto it for a brief period of time and then I was to release it as I placed it upon a coffin as a symbol of a farewell to a very dear person. As we were walking into the church for the service the sun was shining outside and it was as though the bitter cold weather broke for us to fulfill the days agenda.
Even in situations in which you may be the outsider so to speak God can use you to bring life, happiness and comfort to another. That is what He is looking for. How easy it is for you to do this when you know and love someone in your life. Are you willing to extend this life, happiness and comfort to another that is not in that category? Let me share with you a few scriptures that address God's love for us. A love that has to overlook our sin-sick bodies that have been covered with the blood of His only Son, Jesus. When we are seen through that light so to speak we are beautiful to Him just as the beautiful pink rose that I held in my hand for a few brief moments in time.
John 17: 22-26: "I have given them the glory that you gave me. I did this so that they are united in the same way we are. I am in them, and you are in me. So they are completely united. In this way the world knows that you have sent me and that you have loved them in the same way you have loved me. Father, I want those you have given to me to be with me, to be where I am. I want then to see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the world was made. Righteous Father, the world didn't know you. Yet, I knew you, and these disciples have known that you sent me. I have made your name known to them, and I will make it known so that the love you have for me will be in them and I will be in them."
Romans 8: 37-39: "The one who loves us gives us an overwhelming victory in all these difficulties. I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us. We can't be separated by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything in the present or anything in the future, by forces or powers in the world above or in the world below, or by anything else in creation."
Ephesians 2: 4-8: "But God is rich in mercy because of his great love for us. We were dead because of our failures, but he made us alive together with Christ. (It is God's kindness that saved you.) God has brought us back to life together with Christ Jesus and has given us a position in heaven with him. He did this through Christ Jesus out of his generosity to us in order to show his extremely rich kindness in the world to come. God saved you through faith as an act of kindness. You had nothing to do with it. Being saved is a gift from God."
1 John 3: 16-18: "We understand what love is when we realize that Christ gave his life for us. That means we must give our lives for other believers. Now, suppose a person has enough to live on and notices another believer in need. How can God's love be in that person if he doesn't bother to help the other believer? Dear children, we must show love through actions that are sincere, not through empty words."
When I looked up the meaning behind the color pink in my banner chart of colors it states this: Right relationship, compassion, joy. Is that not what each and everyone of us that claims the name of Jesus and are called Christians should have in their hearts and operating in their lives? If it is not operating in your life then you should stop and take a moment to examine your life and see where/when it stopped operating in your life. For, those that confess to be a Christian and they do not operate in love is causing the cause of Christ to be tarnished. Repent of your coldness of heart and renew your spirit with the Holy Spirit. I have a little heart-shaped plaque that my mother gave to me and it states, "Let Your Heart Guide Your Soul." Do not let it be the other way around OK. For your heart is where Jesus reigns and your soul is the fleshly part of yourself. If Jesus is truly reigning in your life then the fleshly stuff can be subsided a bit. Imagine what happens when it is the reverse...all hell breaks out so to speak. Trust in the Lord your God and lean not on your own understanding and He will make your crooked paths straight. Let me share with you a writing I did in which it talks a little bit about the paths you walk on.

WHEAT FIELD PROPHETIC 6/8/08

As I went walking I walked aside an expansive field of wheat that is growing. The Lord had me observe that as the wheat grew to waist high no matter how far the field was in the distance you could see the weeds that grew in the midst of this expansive field. Not a lot but there were enough scattered amongst the wheat to cause your eyes to see them. As the wheat grows in a normal growth pattern the weeds are higher than the wheat’s growth which allows you to spot them and point them out easily.

Another facet the Holy Spirit brought to my attention there were paths within this field. You could vaguely see them if you were close enough to see one and then follow it with your eyes, but only to a point. Therefore, you were not able to see the paths in their fullness or the pattern that was created.

The Holy Spirit is showing me that as the church continues to grow it is very obvious of the weeds or those that are planted within the church that their sole purpose is to try and thwart the move of God. The larger the church grows the more obvious they become and it is the churches responsibility to find them and correct them in love so as to allow them to make a choice to turn from their wicked ways and join the move of God. If they choose to not turn around then the church must deal with them so as to not allow them to move forward and try to thwart this.

That is why it is most imperative to seek the Lord while there still is time and to come up higher & higher & higher, etc. with the Lord. For when you are high up with the Lord you are then able to see the fullness of the paths that have been created and those that see can then be led to where they need to go, for the church to be able to see the path of this move of God. When you are up high you can then see the fullness of everything, the field of wheat, the weeds, and the path or paths and you will know what to avoid. If you would have taken that wrong turn here or there you would then be off of the path, but when you are high up with me saith the Lord I can show you things and direct you so as to not be off of the path.

I also saw two dead birds on the road that I walked alongside of this field. That is to represent that the enemy is here to steal, kill, and destroy and when you are a far distance away from the dead carcass on the road you are not able to see it until you approach it within a distance that you are capable of viewing it.

That is why it is imperative to be up higher & closer to Me saith the Lord of Hosts so as to not fall into the snares of the enemy and by the time a person comes along and discovers you-at that point it is too late the damage has already been done.

Watch careful and pray hard both in your own language and in the Holy Spirit and most important-rest in Me so as to not be taken by surprise by the enemy saith the Lord.