You Are Part Of A Whole: Seek Harmony Proactively

By Pastor ChyChy Ayodele

The whole is the body of Christ on Earth without which, independent of which you cannot exist or function as a saint upon Earth. The body of Christ is comprised of souls from diverse backgrounds, status, experience and temperaments in life. What you are to the body of Christ universally becomes experiential reality in the local assembly as you relate and operate. No saint can exist outside the body of Christ.

Put Positive Emphasis On Love

In church and in even in Christian relationships, if you wait to receive love before you give it you may never do. If you wait for correct response from others you will never do what is right, or do what God requires of you. Love actions are not reactions prompted by conducive atmospheres. Love is not released to the deserving. The unlovable and the loveless need more love.

Every harsh, coarse, hate-filled, wrong attitude, etc, exhibited by any human towards you proceeds from and reveals the deficiency of the divine love in a person's heart. Your response, whether you take offense or not, no matter how unfair and unjust the action toward you is, reveals also the sufficiency or deficiency of divine love in your own heart.

If you are spitefully used and abused by someone, love's response is Jesus' command, "Love those who spitefully use you". If you react in another way, returning spite and hatred, no matter how justified, you have fallen short of love and revealed a deficiency of love in your heart equal to the deficiency of love in the heart of the one who spitefully used you.

This is another bold but humbling fact. In personal conflicts between individuals, God never takes sides. He dispenses love to both sides. If you react apart from love, you fall short, too. The only way to be on God's side in any matter is to act or react in love. Love truly covers multitude of sin.

Jesus on the cross released love and multitude of sins and atrocities were covered up. Love truly is the greatest, especially when it is Divine Love.

Give love to humans and expect love from God. You will not be disappointed because God is love and His love is unfailing. God's love is sure. God's love is faithful, unceasing and abundant. He is shedding it daily abroad in our hearts by His Holy Spirit who dwells in us. To expect love from man is to look for heartbreak, disappointment, disaster. God is love and His love is found in those who really walk with Him. Love is found in those who truly know God.

Come into harmony with love for love itself is harmony, love is in harmony. Love is at peace. Love is unperturbed. Love has forgiven and forgotten all offenses. Be a pioneer, an initiator of this love life on Earth.

Be the first to act and keep acting no matter what comes or goes, no matter what adds or takes away. Be fearless and free. Love wins the day. Give love, receive more from God, give it all away, receive more love from God.

Start from the little in your heart now. Give it away. Reach out to some unlovable person. One who has been spiteful toward you before. Plan out an act of love, a gift of love, words of love. You can afford it. Reach out and touch your enemy with God’s love, touch your adversary, your foes, your worst persecutors, your greatest antagonists, touch them with His love.

Though they doubt you, though they wonder what you are up to, touch them again and again. Love never fails. Be steadfast in love, it humbles you. Surrender and yield to divine love. The devil and enemies may resist your faith, but there's no resistance against persistent steadfast divine love.

The walls will be shattered, barriers broken by love. Love is the greatest weapon. Choose to be among the few who will make the difference. Love even the unlovable, as Christ did and still does. Jesus Christ loves us with perfect love. His gift to us is perfect love. Love those ones who are loveless towards you. Mathew 5:43-48, Mathew 5:20, Romans 5:5.

An atmosphere of hate and discord is the crucible in which the life of perfect love will be discovered by those who have understanding... through the Holy Spirit.

Pastor Chychy Ayodele
Preacher and Teacher of The Word of God; Gospel Singer; Christian Publisher and an Attorney.