Freedom Through Love

A bunch of us sat around tonight talking about the Word that was spoken on Sunday about freedom and love.

The three main points that were spoken about were: 

1. Freedom comes when we love others despite not feeling loved ourselves. 

2. Freedom comes from loving others when we are feeling the love. 

3. Freedom comes when we love others because it's the very nature of God. 

The biggest point that really got me thinking was the first. The idea that freedom comes when we choose to love others even when we are not feeling it ourselves. Love is not a feeling, it's a choice and an action. When we just rely on love being a feeling, it becomes easily lost. When we choose to love, and when we make it an action, it encourages us to love more. 

Have you ever noticed that when you do something nice for someone else, you feel better in yourself? It's the same with love. When you choose to love someone and show them love, you actually begin to feel loved yourself. This can then bring freedom, but how? When we share love and feel love, it frees us from the devils lies, it frees us from negativity, it frees us from the lonliness that we may feel. Love brings freedom, but only when we allow it to flow from us. We cannot expect others to show us love if we are not willing to show it ourselves. Doing this again is going to keep us contained in our own little space, it does not give us freedom. When we choose to love, we give ourselves freedom to express that love. 

"Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers." (Galatians 6:7-10)

This bible verse tells us that what we sow we reap. If we sow love, we will reap love. It also tells us not to grow wearing in doing good, and if we don't give up we will reap a harvest. So.... we need to continue to show love and never give up in showing love, and we will soon reap the harvest of not only feeling and receiving love ourselves, but we should also start to see more and more salvations.

Thankful for: Prayer

Prayer is an amazing thing. It lifts the Spirits, when you feel down or don't feel like praying, sometimes just doing it can put you back in a happier place. The longer we stay away from prayer, the easier it becomes to be pulled away forever, but a simple small prayer can sometimes snap us back into it faster than before.