OUR DECLARATION
OF LOVE!
--A New Apostle's Creed!
--All You
Need Is Love!
By Father David
We believe in Love!--Love for God and others, for
"God is Love!" (1 John 4:8). That's our
religion--Love!
Love is everything, for without Love there is
nothing!--No friends, no families, no fathers or mothers
or children or sex or health or happiness or Heaven.
There could be none of these without Love! And none of
these is possible without God, for God is Love!
This is the solution to all of Man's problems of today as
well as to his problems of the past: Love, true Love, the
Love of God and the love of fellow man! The Spirit of
God's divine Love which helps us all to fulfil His great
commandment to love one another!--This is still God's
solution, even in such a complex and confused and highly
complicated society as that of the World today!
For it is Man's rejection of the Love of God and His
loving laws that causes him to be selfish and unloving
and vicious and cruel and unkind to his neighbour.--Man's
inhumanity to Man, which is so apparent in today's weary
World with all of its enslavement by oppression, tyranny
and exploitation, robbery by the rich, with people
suffering from hunger and malnutrition, disease and ill
health, poverty and homelessness, overwork and evil
abuse, the tortures of war and nightmares of perpetual
fearful insecurity.
All of these evils are caused by Man's lack of love for
God and each other and his defiance of God's laws of love
and faith and peace and harmony with Him, each other and
His whole Creation. "For he that loveth not his
brother whom he has seen, how can he love God Whom he has
not seen?" (1 John 4:20).
It's really just that simple: If we love God, we can love
each other! We can then follow His rules of life, liberty
and the possession of happiness, and all will be well and
happy in Him!
This is why Jesus said the first and greatest commandment
is to love--to "love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind . . .
and the second is like unto it", it's almost equal,
almost the same, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself!" (Matthew 22:37-39).
A lawyer Jesus was speaking to then asked Him, "Who
is my neighbour?" And with the story of the Good
Samaritan, He tried to show them that it is anyone who
needs our help, regardless of their race, creed, colour,
nationality, or condition!:
"And by chance there came down a certain priest that
way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he
was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and
went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and
wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an
inn, and took care of him" (Luke 10:31,33,34).
For if we
have real love, we can't face a needy situation without
doing something about it. We can't just pass by the poor
man on the road to Jericho! We must take action like the
Samaritan did! (See Luke 10:25-35.) Many people today say
of those who need help, "Oh, I'm so sorry, how
sad!" But compassion must be put into action! That's
the difference between pity and compassion: Pity just
feels sorry; compassion does something about it!
We must demonstrate our faith by our works, and love can
seldom be proven without tangible manifestation in
action. To say you love someone and yet not try to help
them physically in whatever way they may need--food,
clothing, shelter and so on--this is not love! True, the
need for real love is a spiritual need, but it must be
manifested physically in works--"faith which worketh
by love!" (Galatians 5:6).
"For whoso hath this World's goods, and seeth his
brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of
compassion from him, how dwelleth the Love of God in him?
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in
tongue; but in deed and in truth!" (1 John 3:17,18).
However, we feel that the greatest manifestation of our
love is not the mere sharing of our material things and
personal possessions, but the sharing of ourselves and
our personal services for others, which is the expression
of our faith, and results in our works and the sharing of
our material possessions. Jesus Himself had nothing
material to share with His disciples, only His Love and
His life, which He gave for them and for us, that we,
too, might have life and love forever!
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friends!" (John 15:13). So we
consider that the sharing of ourselves, our love and our
life with others, is the greatest of all sharing and our
ultimate goal, as well as our present means to that end.
In fact, this is why God created Man to begin with: To
love!--To love and enjoy Him forever and to try to help
others to do the same! It was God Who created Love and
gave Man the need to love and be loved, and it is He
alone Who can satisfy the deepest yearning of every human
soul for total love and complete understanding.
So although the temporal things of this Earth can satisfy
the body, only God and His Eternal Love can ever fill
that aching spiritual void of every man's heart which He
created for Himself alone! The human spirit, that
intangible personality of the real you that dwells within
that body, can never be completely satisfied with
anything less than utter union with the great and loving
Spirit that created it!
He is the very Spirit of Love itself, true Love,
everlasting Love, real Love, genuine Love that never ends
from a Lover Who never leaves, the Lover of all lovers,
God Himself!
He's pictured
in His Son Christ Jesus, Who came for love and lived in
love and died for love that we might live and love
forever! "For God so loved the World, that He gave
His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have Everlasting Life" (John
3:16).
To receive God's Love in Jesus, all you have to do is
open your heart, pray and ask Him to come in. Jesus
promised, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock:
If any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come
in to him" (Revelation 3:20). He waits lovingly and
meekly at your heart's door, not forcing Himself upon
you, not pushing the door open, but waiting for you to
simply ask Him in. Will you?
When you have done this, your whole life will be changed,
like a newborn baby born into a whole new world with a
new spirit as a new child of God! His Spirit within you
will then enable you to do the humanly impossible: Love
God and Man!
You will discover true happiness, not in your personal
pursuit of selfish pleasure and satisfaction, but in
finding God and giving His life to others and bringing
them happiness! Then happiness pursues, overtakes, and
overwhelms you personally, without you even seeking it
for yourself!
"For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap!" (Galatians 6:7). If you sow love, you're
going to reap love. If you sow friendship, you're going
to reap friendship. So obey God's Law of love, unselfish
love, love for Him and others, and give others that love
which is their due, and so shall you also receive.
"For with the same measure that ye mete withal, it
shall be measured to you again!" (Luke 6:38).
Find out what wonders love can do! You'll find a whole
new world of love you have only dreamed of! There are
wonders of love that you can enjoy along with some other
lonely soul--if you will only try! If you give love,
you'll get love!
"Love wasn't put in your heart to stay,
Love isn't love till you give it away!"
Receive God's Love in Jesus today! Hallelujah! He's the
only Truth, the only Peace, and the only Way! Love never
fails, for God is Love!
If you have not yet personally received Jesus' gift of
Eternal Love, pray the following prayer and be born again
into His heavenly Kingdom of Love:
Dear Jesus, I want to have true love, and I now see that
it can only come from You. Please forgive me for my sins,
Jesus, and come into my heart and be my Lord and Saviour.
Please fill me with Your Holy Spirit of Love, to empower
me to be a witness to others of Your Love and Salvation.
In Your name I pray, amen.
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