Christian Action, 13of39

~ Demonstrate Christian Love ~

Series Note  ~  In just the single chapter of Romans 12 the Apostle Paul gave believers a list of 39 things which are part of the Christian life which pleases God.  This chapter is crying out saying, “If you name Jesus Christ as your Savior then please act like a Christian!”  It is Paul’s “To Do List” for us.  The key principle is that while you and I cannot change God’s character (who He really is) we have the clear potential to damage His reputation (what others think He is). 

Scripture to Meditate On  ~  “Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love” (Romans 12:10b). 

Comment  ~  “God is Love” (1 John 4:8, 16).  Should it be a surprise that God asks those who are CHRISTians to display love! 

Related Passages  ~  Jesus said, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.  By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:34-35).  “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble” (James 1:27a).  “Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has nee” (Ephesians 4:28).  “Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.  Honor widows who are really widows” (1 Timothy 5:1-3).  “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1).

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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