Power of Relationship with God's Love

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Love, Love, Love…

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres” – I Corinthians 13: 4- 7

Overview:
On this series “Power of Relationship with God’s Love”, we are going to see the special character of Love “Love is not proud”. This character is the source of all the evil in this whole world, which led to the rebellion of the devil. The Bible says that pride was the source for Devil’s downfall and spoiled his relationship with God (Ezekiel 28:17). This is one of the important relationship spoilers. By guarding our heart from this will help you grow in more love and strong relationship.

“Though the LORD is on high, he looks upon the lowly, but the proud he knows from afar.” – Psalm 138:6

“Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor” – Proverbs 18:12

Love is not proud

Definition:
Oxford – “having or showing a high opinion of oneself”
Cambridge – “feeling that you are better and more important than other people”
Other Synonyms: Arrogant, self-important, swollen with pride, self- righteous

* When Blessings increase we should guard our heart else proudness can come (Deuteronomy 8:13-15)
Example: Peninnah was proud when she was blessed with children.
* If we do not respond to the kindness shown by God and others our heart will fall towards proud ness (II Chronicles 32:25,26 & II Kings
20:12-19)
* Great skills can bring proud ness to our heart. “By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud” (Ezekiel 28:5)
* More success tempts our heart to be proud. When we have more success in our life we tend to believe that we are important and privileged and it tempts us to be proud and look towards others lowly.

“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble” – James 4:6

Our Lord wants us to walk in humbleness in our relationships. I am still learning this humility from our Savior’s life on the earth 2000 before giving us a footprint to follow not just by commanding us to do from above, as it is said “Our attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death– even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name” – Philippians 2:5-9

When we protect our heart from pride, and build our relationship with humility based on love. We can grow and our relationships will be a blessing to us and to many others. There is always another big danger, when our blessings multiply Human’s have a heart to forget God and even question God existence.

Prayer:
Lord help me to grow in your Love and be humbly, please forgive my sins of proud ness in my heart. Bless my relationship and give me light to walk in your path. In the mighty name of Jesus I Pray – Amen

God Bless You!

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