To all who are crushed, abandoned and despised…
Take off the garment of self-pity!
The unshakeable VICTORY is waiting for you…
Love means sacrifice. Sacrificing means having unshakable victory.
When a person has an opportunity to take revenge, but instead forgives, it means they love. “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you… And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same… Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and you shall not be judged… Forgive, and you will be forgiven…” (Lk. 6:27-38).
Love builds up. For the building to be durable, it needs to be based on Jesus the Rock, that is on the Word of God. Everything based on the Word of God is invincible. “Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it” (Is. 46:11b).
Lawlessness has grown so much that hopelessness presses people down, sometimes even the godly ones. You do not need to panic. The strength of those who are waiting on the Lord is to keep their peace and calmness in following the leading of the Holy Spirit. “‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts” (Zech. 4:6).
“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength… You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Mk. 12:30-31). “And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise” (Lk. 6:31).
Never stop, never cease doing good! “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart” (Gal. 6:9).
Ten Commandments of Mother Teresa
- People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
- If you are kind, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
- If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
- Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
- What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.
- If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
- The good you do today, will often be forgotten.
Do good anyway.
- No matter what people speak about you,
Smile and do your work anyway.
- Pray together and stay together.
- Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
Yes, all this was between you and God, and God’s faithfulness is unshakeable.
What if God was deeply wounded because of what Adam and Eve did? Out of desperation, He would deliver them into the hands of the devil and then destroy His creation – the earth with all its visible and invisible wonders. Then you would not live today. (Those who consider themselves miserable might think at these lines, “It would be better that I have never lived; I would have never had to fumble in this misery now.”)
Shake yourself up! Cast the burden off from your shoulders! Cast yourself into God’s arms. If you have no strength, crawl, but move; get up from where you have fallen and cry out to Jesus! You have a Savior who leaves the 99 and goes out after one. Right now, you are that one. Throw yourself into what He says, “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength” (Mk. 12:30). Cast off the garment of self-pity, and whisper words of love to Him. Are you in need? Help those in need! “And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise” (Lk. 6:31).
Never be offended! Do not allow snakes and scorpions to sting you. Muster up your strength and trample on the snakes and scorpions! “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Lk. 10:19). Snakes and scorpions are the traps of the enemy that aim to stop you and lead you astray from the Way of Love – the Love that makes you sacrifice, forgive and sow kindness… that gives you opportunity to reap the harvest of what you sowed.
Dive into Love… Love does not destroy; it protects. It is a strong tower. Love helps and gives you victory.
If was the Love for mankind that kept Jesus on the Cross. Today you are in the risen Jesus. Each person around is the one for whom Jesus was tortured, crucified and for whom He shed His blood. Love each one of them! Adorn your Love with WORKS! Ask God for wisdom to love as He wants you to love, so that your love can build up and manifest the glory, mercy and grace of God. The Lord is your Shepherd, and you will not want. Believe these words! Say them with the Psalmist!
The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters.
He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil;
For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
My cup runs over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life;
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord
Forever.
(Psalm 23:1-6).