HIS VOICE DAILY DEVOTIONAL
MONDAY, 19TH FEBRUARY 2024
TOPIC: LOVE SILENCE FEAR
TEXT: 1JOHN 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. KJV
The phrase "Perfect love cast out fear" denote that when you mature in love, by exercising the expressions of love daily, as you interact with others, you are intentionally allowing yourself to become vulnerable, such that every sense of fear to hide from others or protect yourself from being hurt is silently pull down. This does not relate in any way to being foolish or acting irrationally. It is simply allowing others a room in your space. Giving others the priority and preference to be cared for while you focus on God as the rewarder of your kindness.
Though you are loving others but within is the fight against self-defense and fear of the unknown. Loving as God would have you do, will leave you at the mercy of others in order to grow out of fear of the unknown. The worst any one on earth can do to you in the hands of God can never be up to the depth of God's love. The strength of your character is tested when you allow yourself to undergo the fire that comes from disappointment, hurt, and offense. It might look like the world will end but no it isn't. Rather, you will come out strong, learning to love despite the hurts.
Why will you let your heart be wounded with the hot iron of other people's mal behaviors? Because God is the focus. He has shed his love abroad in your heart, that you might learn from him to know how to love the less deserving of your goodness. God loves the imperfect! Do you remember that you were not worthy of his love too? You have done so much to hurt him, yet he didn't give up on you because he believed that one day, you will be able to extend the same depth of love to others.
But God didn't want this to be a one-time attitude but a habit to cultivate over time through the power of his grace, sponsored by his Spirit in you. So that daily, you can live a loving life, loving others without reservation. As long as we are in this world, offenses will come, hatred will rise, hurt has a place on earth but you and I must live to change the narrative. God want us to be a generation of people, that hurt has no lasting impact. Those in whom offenses will lose their power and hatred will be left handicapped.
1John 4:11 says; Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another KJV. If you truly understand and know how much God loves you, you will love others without fear. Let God bear the cost, but you are to pay the price. Pay the price to love the underserving. The price is boldness, pay it in full and dispel the fear of the unknown. God is waiting for you at the other side of fear, which is Faith.
PRAYER
Thank you, Father. With you by my side, I have got nothing to fear. I give my heart completely to love others without reservation in Jesus' name. Amen
Written by: Mopelola Oyeniran
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