Our love for others is our grateful response to the love God first demonstrated to us. 1 John 4:19 TPT
Human love is wonderful, but God’s love working in us is supernatural! Human love’s response is to love someone who loves you. But supernatural love that is enabled by Holy Spirit, love’s those who are unloveable, hate us, despitefully use us and persecute us. Why would we love people who do anything but love us back? It is to thank God for the love He has shown us and we can’t help but want them to experience the freedom, joy, peace and grace we do.
Holy Spirit not only helps us show God’s love, but gives us the patience to wait for it to break even the hardest heart. It keeps us praying and believing that God’s love can conquer all things even when we can’t see anything happen. Why? Because we know how patient He is with us, and in turn we want to show that grace to others.
Godly love is powerful, healing and overcoming, because as Romans 8:38 reminds us, nothing can ever separate us from the love of God.
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