LIVING THE LOVE OF GOD!
TEACHING the love of God=
Is a great thing=especially
To young children=but
You can't teach it
UNLESS YOU LIVE IT=
Because love=is something
YOU CANNOT SEE
“No one have ever seen God=
Yet-if we LOVE ONE ANOTHER-
God remains in us
And his love
Is brought to perfection
In us” 1 John 4:12
HOW can we teach something
We don't see?
By telling them STORIES
About Jesus and about God=
By taking them to CHURCH
With us=
By PRAYING out loud with them
But for many=young and older respectively=
It is IMPOSSIBLE for them
To grasp
The concept of God
Yet=we CONTINUE
To teach them=the concept OF FAITH
WE continue
To LIVE the concept of God
In our daily life
We TEACH THEM
Unconditional love and unceasing care
Because that is
WHO we are
And WHAT we want them to be
LIVING THE LOVE OF GOD!
“But about=
The resurrection of the dead=
Have you not read
What God said to you
'I am the God
Of Abraham-the God of Isaac-
And the God of Jacob?'
He is
NOT the God of the dead
But of the LIVING” Matthew 22:32
“Whoever believes in me
As Scripture has said
Rivers of LIVING WATER
Will flow from within them” John 7:38
“Therefore I urge you
Brothers and sisters
In view of God's mercy
To offer your bodies
As LIVING sacrifices
Holy and pleasing to God--------
This is your true
And proper worship” Romans 12:1
And we want those=we TRY and teach
To see=HOW MUCH
We love them
Leave them no room
For doubt
About your love
And EXPLAIN to them
That this is the way
GOD LOVES THEM!
This is how God LOVES US=
Only more so=we teach
The way GOD LOVES THEM!
“I will instruct you
And TEACH YOU
In the way=you should go
I will counsel you
With my loving eye on you” Psalm 32:8
Our kids/our students learn
That LOVE can't be
Totally taught
It comes only from
The example
OF LIVING THE LOVE OF GOD!
In Jesus' name=and in the name=of our FOREVER LIVING LOVING FATHER!
Robert P. Wallman
5-14-2021
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Steve Givens
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