The Victory Way

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On this Victory Way thread I'd like to put down posts , what I believe to be nuggets of encouragement I've wrote. Each one will be about a 2 minute read. Hope you enjoy! I'll start by number of posts on The Christian Love Walk.

Victory Way 1
First of all it's a Commandment! Jn 15:12 "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you." Jesus didn't just say it's a good idea. He didn't say it's just a wonderful thought or something you might just consider. He made it a Commandment! That means we do it whether we feel like doing it or not. That means God is saying I am your Commander and Chief in Heaven your Lord and King and you must become compliant to what I'm saying.

We can say it's a MUST to do, it's essential, and imperative with no option to do the contrary that is if we want to please him. So was God being mean to insist upon such? Unreasonable? Or was he rather just longing to keep you in the realm of joy and peace? The last thought of course is the TRUTH. God who is LOVE doesn't want his children wallowing around in the misery and poison that comes from sin! Strife, contention, ill will and rancor is a degeneration from the Light of Life., which shuts down your FAITH. (Cont on a future day)

 

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Victory Way 2

So the scripture says in Col 3:13 that we are to show forbearance towards one another in LOVE. What's forbearance? It means to hold up with, to bear with or I could put it this way....to graciously even to put up with people whether at times you feel like it or not. That can take us back to the Commandment of LOVE Jn 15:12 God has given to each of us. Hang in there, or keep working with people without freaking out, or falling apart like a cheap two dollar watch.

One might say, "Well I don't feel like it." but I can imagine Jesus appearing in front of one such one and telling them lovingly but boldly, "Stop, stop, STOP! Where did you ever read in my word that you always get to do things you always feel like doing? I said endeavor so guess what? Keep endeavoring and after you've done some of that do it again and again until I tell you to stop." One might say, "Well it's hard Lord it hard!" His response might be "Didn't I say in my WORD at there may be times when you might have to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ? 2 Tim 2:3

Don't collapse into yielding to the flesh but to stand fast in the LOVE of God. Eph 4:2 states, "With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love." The next scripture I think should be pasted on the doorway of every Christian assembly regardless of how well we even do this. It's something we always need reminded of ,
"Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Eph 2:3 Always easy to do? Nope!

As for me can't say that it is. We keep in mind though that if we do have our daily fellowship with the Lord at the day's start, with devotions and many do this in different ways one most certainly does have a capacity not to be bothered by what should be considered low level agitations.

Even with being in the best spiritual shape however....no ....not always easy to ENDEAVOUR. As modern lingo says some people may tick you off, get your goat, rub you the wrong way but God says to us all, "HEY....KEEP ENDEAVOURING don't set that aside! Be a part of the solution for the world with my LOVE flowing through you and not be part of the problem.