I'm in Love!

by: Bro. Rene Tumang

What does love posses? Is there a transformation in love?  Does it change character?

The word love cannot be used against God; by spawning a dishonest wealth simultaneous with loving God.

John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.

Deuteronomy 6:5 Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Do all things with love. Without love, we gain nothing.

Frequent community engagement without passion cannot be equated with sincere love which reaps nothing.

Love comes with a pure heart.

Proverbs 27:19 As one face differs from another, so does one human heart from another.

Materialism as a show of character is yet a show of who you are as a person.

The heart pumps blood to 75 trillion cells to be functional which resume to its original setting in 6 seconds, 8 seconds to the brain and 16 seconds to the feet.

The human heart can pulsate outside of the  body which the medical practitioners transport from one country to the other for transplant purposes.

The heart pumps almost 1.5 barrels of blood in human’s lifetime.

The heart sees what is invisible to the eyes.  For example, there is a couple whose daily errand I personally encountered with.  They are both blind who are into lending doing it house to house.  While the people within their community spend money for their personal grooming, this couple saves money because what their neighbors could buy brought by the perceived value of the eyes are not the things that they acquire but the simple choice which could cope up their need.  In effect, they’re enjoying a well-sustained life while their neighbor experiencing a miserly existence because of overspending.

Love comes into focus, dedication and passion.  In community involvement, be like an eagle for its being focused wherein it scrutinizes its subject before it glides to seize its goal.

Colossians 3:23-24 Whatever you do, do from the heart, as for the Lord and not for others, knowing that you will receive from the Lord the due payment of the inheritance; be slaves of the Lord Christ.

Psalm 100:2 Love comes with cheerfulness and willingness.

Serve the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful song.

Love comes with obedience.  Partial obedience is disobedience.

John 14:15 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Love comes with faithfulness.

Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom (of God) and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides.

Most of the time, we’re all after the creations that are perceived by the naked eye than the Creator because of preoccupation on ambition and family which man overlooks that they themselves are God’s provision.

Love comes with generosity.

A generous heart is someone who does a daily search to practice goodwill than to be hunted by someone who needs a charitable heart.  For example, a friend of mine who had been recognized of his fame on bold film as a director and financial abundance never returned to film direction even amidst scarcity.  Every day, he would pick a scratch broad sheet which he uses as a support to his thinning shoe heel which he used daily in the church service being the founder.  At one point, he had to give up his last savings which was intended for his siblings’ education in favor of his brother who had to undergo a cancer operation. 

Generosity is a test of greed, selfish desire, for wealth and possession.

Exodus 35:4-19 Moses told the whole Israelite community, "This is what the LORD has commanded: Take up among you a collection for the LORD. Everyone, as his heart prompts him, shall bring, as a contribution to the LORD, gold, silver and bronze; violet, purple and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair; rams' skins dyed red, and tahash skins; acacia wood; oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; onyx stones and other gems for mounting on the ephod and on the breastpiece. "Let every expert among you come and make all that the LORD has commanded: the Dwelling, with its tent, its covering, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its columns and its pedestals; the ark, with its poles, the propitiatory, and the curtain veil; the table, with its poles and all its appurtenances, and the showbread; the lampstand, with its appurtenances, the lamps, and the oil for the light; the altar of incense, with its poles; the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; the entrance curtain for the entrance of the Dwelling; the altar of holocausts, with its bronze grating, its poles, and all its appurtenances; the laver, with its base; the hangings of the court, with their columns and pedestals; the curtain for the entrance of the court; the tent pegs for the Dwelling and for the court, with their ropes; the service cloths for use in the sanctuary; the sacred vestments for Aaron, the priest, and the vestments worn by his sons in their ministry.

1 Corinthian 13:8 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.

Jeremiah 33:25 God established His covenant with the day and night and the fixed order of heaven and the earth.