LOVE: THE GREATEST FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

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Hello wonderful people!!!☺️☺️☺️

Welcome back to another series of the greatest fruit of the spirit called love. Today’s write up will be made up of two parts…

You know I have been doing a lot lately from online class to my project and to so many assignments and I realized I have not being consistent with uploading a lot of the 1st Corinthians 13 series and I have fresh exciting topics to give you all, so I have to round this up really fast.

I have currently not being myself lately because of the hatred I have seen with the recent killings on this world. Sometimes I wonder if it is because of the covid 19 pandemic or hatred for other men. I have never really paid attention to things like this  from the killing of Floyd to the rape of Uwa and Tina, I thought over and over again that what has the world turned into?

Let me tell you that for two weeks of thinking of these things, kneeling to God in prayer and he brought me back to my blog, telling me what was the purpose of blog and I realized it is to address these things and it still goes back to love.

Love has not being shared across to all even as believers. We should continuously press on to show forth in action what it means to love your neighbor as yourself. Now I will try to compress a few things that is going on in the world that are not the fruits of the spirit rather is anything called LOVE.

LOVE IS NOT JEALOUS

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Being jealous is being not happy for other people, feeling resentful of someone for a perceived advantage, material or other wise. On a norm, we all  know jealousy kills not to talk of having an idea of a love that’s jealous

Love is never jealous, in 1st Corinthians 13:4 it is a pure unconditional feeling. Therefore, if love is exactly what I described it as then it doesn’t invite jealousy and jealousy could be seen as a conditioned feeling and such feeling doesn’t follow the term of love. It destroys Job5:2

LOVE IS NOT BOASTFUL OR PROUD

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Love has not nothing to do with the  proud or those who show off and God hate the proud and will judge the proud. Isaiah 2:12This simply means love hate the proud because God is love ☺️… Isn’t that amazing? Pride goes before a fall and to be boastful is not from God either is these two evil fruits. They can never be invited where love is rather wit is with the humble and humble people enjoy unlimited grace because it is.

LOVE DOES NOT DISHONOR OTHERS

Dishonor is having no honour for one and it can be said as having no respect for one. When you dishonour others, you are simply saying you have no value for one. This is why if you don’t honour others, you can not be honoured by anybody.

If you love someone or you claim to love someone you are telling them I respect you, I value you and I will honour  and most times when you honour such people, you try not to make mistakes that will interpret anything called dishonour to them. You can honour people by respect who they are, respecting what they respect and cherish. There are benefits of honoring someone example such as an extension of honouring such people gets to you, that is you will be honoured. Love is not associated with those who dishonour other people. Psalm 70:2, 1st Corinthians 13:5

LOVE IS NOT SELFISH

Love is not self seeking means being selfish, I know as human beings we tend to help only ourselves but as believers who keep experiencing God’s love, it therefore a sin to be selfish we should extend this love to others to experience, by helping people telling them how much you love them, how much God loves them. Especially in this isolation period call people and tell them they are not alone, God is with them and so on. These things go along way , I just got a news of an actor who had passed on this Sunday by killing himself. Why will he have to do that if only someone had cared and showed him love, depression is real this is what killed him, he tried to call so many friends but no one picked his call. It would have been a different case if only one person would have answered his call… Been alone for that matter the devil would have given him enough reason to leave this world and not thinking about his friends and family who loved him and like I heard he was a good actor, had great people but none was there to help. These are the things we believers can help in reducing the level or thought of suicide. Giving to others is where God’s blessings dwells in mostly. Romans 2:8, 1st Corinthians 13:4

LOVE IS NOT EASILY ANGERED

Anger is an evil fruit and can be dangerous if care is not taken. Anger  is a spirit that comes upon a person causing them to destroy something in a foot of rage. It has destroyed so many marriages, relationships and so on. You can love someone purely but because you are easily angered you cause a lot of damages  and break a lot of relationships. Psalm 37:8, proverbs 29:22 If you are in such category I will advice you to deal with by having self control and also because it doesn’t speak well of you. Even if you have no intention of causing any harm, you end up doing the opposite rather ask God to deliver you because it is a spirit and once it wears off you realize the deeds that has been done is something you will have to gain with great difficulty. Proverbs 15:1, Ecclesiastes 7:9 Love doesn’t reside where anger dwells. The faster you curb it from it’s root the better for you and other relationships you have.😊

LOVE KEEPS NO RECORD OF WRONG AND IT DOES NOT DELIGHT IN EVIL

Forgiveness is key in this life, even God says we should forgive and it is for our sake most times. It keeps us sane and not wanting to punish people by keeping records of their wrong because such things will eventually bounce back to those who refuse to forgive.

God forgives us from all our sins, therefore we have no right to record the wrong of others. We are humans and we tend to err but a believer should never think of keeping records of other people’s wrong but instead, forgive and move on. This way we tend to keep prospering because we did the right things to forgive and let go and like the saying goes LET GO AND LET GOD. We do help ourselves a lot on this one by delighting in the good of others too alot of blessings comes from this because you prosper on every side even till it is your time to shine. Delighting in evil never takes us anywhere it is better do good and be pleased with God and with ourselves. Love will never allow one to keep wrong records of the one he respects either will it allow it to delight in evil. 1st Corinthians 13:5 If such thing happens it clearly shows there is no love.

See you guys in part 2😊

Stay safe and stay blessed!!!♥️