Love Acceptance & Forgiveness


Bear with (Accept) each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on Love which binds them all together in perfect unity (col. 3:13-14)
Our actions issue from our attitudes. Attitudes are learned; they are also chosen. Only when they become habits, as the consequence of intentional practice, do they really become part of our character - who we really are.
Landon Saunders was once heard to say, "You can't win at life if you loose at relationships, and you can't loose at life if you win at relationships."
Meaningful relationships are fostered, nurtured and maintained by the habits of loving, accepting and forgiving.

Love = intending the best for another whether or not it is deserved.
Acceptance = valuing another as potentially bearing God's image.
Forgiveness = cancelling all debts incurred by others.

To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His steps. - 1 Peter 2:21


I. LOVE JUST AS ...

Love is patient; love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. (1 Cor. 13:4-8) 

A. Definitions: 
    
     1. Eros - Sensual, Sexual Love 
     2. Storge - Familial, belonging 
     3. Philia - Friendship 
     4. Agape - Intending the best for another, even if undeserving 

B. Motivations  (1 Cor 13:1-3) 

     If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy  
     gong or a clanging cymbal.
     If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so       as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
     And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do         not have love, it profits me nothing.


Love covers a multitude of sins
Love unites over all the virtues of col 3:12 and Love will become our identity by which people will know whom we belong to and whom we represent.

May God grant us ...
 
                        Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, 
                        Courage to change the things I can, 
                        And wisdom to know the difference. 

Thank You 

PS: The article is based on the teaching by honourable brother Ray McMillan....  



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