LOVE IS THE POWER

 

LOVE IS THE POWER

LOVE is the STRONGEST POWER

In the world=it CHANGED

The world once=and I BELIEVE

It can CHANGE the world again

But it is NOT EASY=and it is

An awful of of work=love means

FORGIVING=it means overlooking faults=

And SOMETIMES it even means

LOVING OUR ENEMIES

“But I say to you=LOVE your enemies

And PRAY for those

Who persecute you...............”                                                                                       Matthew 5:44

Are you SERIOUS Lord?=I can think

Of people who TURN their heads at me=

Who scoff at me=who I can BARELY

Get a HELLO from

But=LOVE is the POWER=

I know that=you PROVED IT=

You CONQUERED your enemies

By LOVING even in death=

Humiliation=and torture

The LEAST that we can do=is EMULATE

YOU=and LOVE all those you put

In our path=through LIFE

For LOVE IS INDEED THE POWER

“ONE thing God has spoken

Two things I have heard

'POWER belongs to you=God=

And with you=Lord=

Is UNFAILING LOVE'”                                                                                                      Psalm 62:11

“The TONGUE has the power

Of LIFE and death

And those who love it

Will eat its fruit”                                                                                                        Proverbs 18:21

“Jesus replied='You are in ERROR

Because you do NOT KNOW

The SCRIPTURES

Or the POWER OF GOD'”                                                                                           Matthew 22:29

We KNOW Lord that you

Have the POWER OF LOVE

That you know the Scriptures

That you ARE the Scriptures

That you LOVE EVERYONE

But asking us to love

OUR ENEMIES are tall orders

Are we to love terrorist bombers=

Child molesters=murderers=corrupt politicians=

And on and on and on

WHY MUST we love them?  

Sometimes=it is DIFFICULT enough

To love those that we are CLOSE to

Yet you PROVED to us=love in all

WAYS=in all circumstances=CHANGES

THE WORLD

We UNDERSTAND that love is WORK=that love=

Is COMPLICATED=and love comes with a

LOT of emotional baggage

HELP US to truly love

Our enemies=and PRAY for them=

Even though we don't CONDONE

Their ways

You told us that GOD'S WAYS are

NOT the way of humans=and now

I understand

LOVE is the FOUNDATION on which

Christianity was BUILT

Love is the POWER

And it is UNFAILING

LOVE IS THE POWER 

Love is the CORNERSTONE

Love is the FOUNDATION

“The rain came down=

The streams rose

And the wind blew=

And BEAT against that house

Yet it did NOT FALL

Because it had its FOUNDATION

On the ROCK”                                                                                                             Matthew 7:25

LOVE IS ROCK=You are rock=

You are the FOUNDATION

I give myself to your

UNFAILING LOVE=and even

PRAY FOR MY ENEMIES

In Jesus' name and in the name of OUR HEAVENLY FATHER

Robert P. Wallman

2-23-18 and 7-12-2022

Ps         INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Paul Pennick