1 Cor 13: 7-8Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails.
The news
over the last few days reported on a woman who had recently come out of prison for
over a month. She was serving time for drug addiction and some other offences
and when she came home, she took her two sons to the river and wanted to murder
both of them.
She got the
younger 5 year old boy into the river where he drowned. The older 7 year old
boy screamed and fought his way until help came, the boy was rescued and
managed to cheat death.
What happened
here when a natural mother should have all the love for her young? This is
contrary to what God is. He is love and He has input this love into all living
creatures in the world. Even the birds love their young, the most poisonous
snakes love their young, the most ferocious wild cats love their young and even
man eaters like the crocodiles love their young.
What really
happened here? Again we see the battle between God and Satan. The family is
planned and build by God. In the beginning God said that it is not good for man
to be alone and He made a woman for him so that they could have a family and
live a blessed life together.
God’s plan
was for fellowship with man and when He was not around, He wanted the man and
the women to have fellowship with each other. Then God commanded them to start
a family and to love the family. This was the original plan of God which also
went down to all living life forms.
It is always
the joy of parents and grandparents when little children are born. There is
that love that the new born brings to the home. All through the growing years
there is also that joy.
However when
the child grow into the teenage years, relationship problems begin to surface
and relationship between parents and children begin to have cracks. This is
when the teenager begins to have contacts and friends outside the homes and
when they become influenced but others non-Christians who are controlled by the
devil.
We see many
of these in the city as they live very decadent lives with immoral practices
and drug cultures. In the developed societies where immorality like homosexual
activities is a norm and openly practised, society embraces and accepts them.
However these are against the holiness and laws of God.
This type of
cultures are satanic and totally against God’s moral standards and law. In fact
these were also the practices that Satan got the early civilizations to be
enslaved. Through the world, Satan had turned men and women away from God with
all the temptations of the flesh and evil deeds that he has put into the minds
of depraved people.
Both men and
women are under severe bondage of the devil and they cannot come out of this
vicious bondage. It is a bad taste to the mouth when we see such activities
around us being practiced openly and rampantly. This tells us that the devil is
winning in the war for souls and they are falling fast into the pits of Hell.
God’s salvation
works with love for His words say; “For
God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believe in Him
shall have everlasting life.”
The
everlasting life is not what Satan wants; instead he wants all men to fall into
the pits of everlasting torment with him in hell. The only way to combat and
overturn his plans is to have love and forgiveness.
That is why
Paul had written this chapter on love that all Christians must have so that we
can use love as the weapon to overcome the works of Satan.
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