Choose Love

The enemy has a PhD in the art of distraction.  I make up my mind to focus on something God is helping me to understand and the enemy distracts.  He uses other people to try to spread his lies, capture the doubtful spirit, all at the expense of those in pain.  Satan wants us to show our ugly, and he wants us only to see the ugly in other people.  But it isn't working.

                                   I choose love!
How can we do that if we do not know the love of the Father? Answer: we can't.  God is my first defense against the lies of the enemy, and God is love.  Those who try to cause hurt or pain in our lives, have compassion on them; they have no idea who they are and no intimate knowledge of the one who calls them "chosen".  I will be praying always for those who are in my life who choose to reject this perfect love.  I trust that God will bring them to a place that they will be faced with a decision and will choose love, to accept the love freely given, and to, in turn, love with that same pure love.  They will experience a life changing moment that will be eye opening, they will shed the skin that kept them contained in a place that didn't allow for growth.  The chains will be broken, they will no longer be slaves, unable to be used for the enemy's purpose of destruction.  They will reach up hands and hearts open ready to be filled with love then reach out to give the same unconditional love to others who do not know.

Learn about this love, learn about our Father...know the love that He is.  Choose love.

John 4:7-21 (because it is all so good and clear)

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.