Antibullying Begins With Love 10/28/2022
Daily Devotions: by Christina FarrisEphesians 3:14-21 KJV
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen
Greatest antibullying campaign began with love. God sent his word, to be a propiator of our sin. Jesus was and is the propitiation for our sin. Jesus is the word of life. Without the word without God's grace, God be bombing us for eveything man did without just reason. Without us understanding his will or ways. It be like being placed on earth with no road map. Or in hollywood placed on Mars without oxygen to breath by. They say plants are growing on Mars and I have to ask how much carbon dioxide is there for them to breath. For with plant life something else happens oxygen is now produced on a planet light years away from us. I have to ask does science think they are God and can rebuild or make a planet be productive? I don't know, but I know they looking into life source that is producing now because of plants. and the question came can the plants produce animals, better yet do these plants need pollination and from wind or from bees? Are they bulb plants that reproduce underground and so forth. Sounds like my rant maybe bullying science a little. Lot of questions that need answering to the public about Mars and it growth. Are they going to try and do this on Venus as well. Point lack of knowledge produce much sarcasm, jokes and ridicule of a lack of knowledge. Lack of knowledge of who God is produces the same type of joking by heathens and believers alike. Never conciderating their own lack of knowledge is the problem.
We all must have to start somewhere and understanding the potential of where bullying behaviors begin. It begin outside the knowledge and wisdom God gave originally to man. For man understood not what evil was until the forbidden fruit was eaten. God in his wisdom returns again with his orignal love his promise of his word that if we follow his instruction we will rest and abide in love. If we are rooted and grounded in love it can only produce more love in our hearts. When Adam and Eve chose disobedience the root of evil sprang forth with the knowledge of love. With the knowledge of obedience still intact, and without the weedkiller called love evil springs forth in the heart instead of Christ. People naturally bully people. It almost an ingrown instinct not to love as much as the idea of seeking love is produce. We all perfer love verses bullying, unless you are part of the federation of wrestling, who thrives on bullying. They are people in wrestling people love to hate it like the villians in movies we love to hate them but to consider loving them would mean it would go against the grain of society. Bullying the enemy through forcing them to obey rules they seem only to agree and only benefits them is idiotoloy. It okay because our world is full of idiotology existing. God rewarding people destine for hell with the judgment and force of anger that they bestow on others instead of love seeming not to be our vocabulary until we acknowledge the feeling of hate, judgment of others to the point we are sick of our own anger and rather have the cross of peace and love. Anger says lets do our worse on society. That is when God's love is no longer in vogue but the anger of resentment, hate seems to be trying to rule, in our society and hearts of the people. May love and idea love reign. Our bullying nature coming forth it rain drops of evil because of a refusal to listen to God and to his word called love.
Idiotology the product of bad ideas. Bullying is a bad idea. Paul's pray had to do with the believer. Similiar to Christ prayer before he went to the cross found in John 17. Christ desired the believer to be built on unity of faith with one another and to love. Paul talks in his prayer about the love of Christ being rooted in the believer to produce love and not hate, not bullying, but peace and love with each other first and then with others. That body of Christ be rooted together by the love of God and not the hate of the world. Bigots line themselves with the evil of hate within their hearts instead of love and compassion.
The church(body of Christ), children of God are called to show love and compassion. That love is planted in our hearts when we choose his gift of grace, through his Son Jesus. We choose his forgiveness, his mercy and hope to the world. If I can stress the fact that love is planted not just on the outside of our life pressing in on us, it grows within the heart of the believer to show that unconditional love for others, starting with the household of fellow believers. Sometimes we do not understand our sisters and brothers of faith. Sometimes we so knitted together our difference matter not. We need to pray we will be so knitted by Christ love that our difference that make us useful to the kingdom of God shines brightly and are covered by the purity nature of God's grace. That the work of Christ in the believer, that seen and not seen produces the fruit of love only God through his Son can bring. Love is the biggest antibuly prevention out there. It comes with stories of missionaries that dealt with tribes that murdered instead of seeking who people were, and later got to know family members of people that had lost their love ones to them, all because of the Gospel of Jesus. The stories sounding far complexing how could on forgive those that murdered their family members for the Gospel, but they did and pressed to see the Gospel in those place and regions where their family members had died. I grew up with stories in church of these things and wonder how can one still love the enemy. It gave new insight to the love of Christ for me, but it far different when it is your love one, your family member if you can truly love like that, and that kind of love takes Christ love within someone.
As a believer we need to fight bullying with love, and peace, and not war. We need to pray that ours and the body of Christ heart is so rooted in love that even the heathens can not change our minds or our hearts about Christ. That wall of roots of love so enrich us that love is what others see in us. It not something we have the power to do ourselves. Love is something God gives man, from the time he is born til the time he dies. Man rejects love and receives it not, then he is going to place there is no love but only evil and hate. Love received is received because his word is received as well. Christ must be received with the love of God.
Dear Heavenly Father, rooted us and knitted our hearts together with other believers. Help us to grow in truth and grace of your word. Let love be so pentrated and so thick in our hearts that our hate can never win, and your love always shines forth from our hearts. In Jesus precious name, Amen.
Continual Scripture Study: John 17:21-26 KJV
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
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