Jayamsih..! Welcome to today’s devotion!
Does love take a change?
- 1 John 4:20-21
If we have less than unconditional love for the saints (the love that is expressed to living believers). We hate them. If a conditioned response can change our love, we will not love the person whose response has changed it. Jesus loved Peter unconditionally. While Peter had a conditional response to the point of denying Jesus, Christ still has the same kind of love for him. His love for Judah never stopped, even when it was denied. Many times our love for people stops if they go against us. Now we stop loving unconditionally based on that God, but in reality we hate people because of the conditional love. If a man says he loves God and yet he loves his wife according to how she behaves, which is a changing love, then he is a liar. He did not live for the first reason of love. His love is rooted in the fall and not in the resurrection life. If a person fights with people and does not practice unconditional love, there is a strong possibility that he is not saved and is deceived, or that he is saved but has not gone to Calvary to receive grace in his relationships with people.
Unconditional love died when we were His enemies. If we have anything less than unconditional love, we are living in the first texture of hate. If your goodness extends only to God and not to the saints, you are an ordinary believer living in simplicity without anything particularly compelling in a devotional love, which love should have extended to the saints.
Today’s Reading: Psalms 4-6