Today I was able to share the gospel with 2 people.
I know I did it in faith so I am glad that God produced that fruit in me.
The problem is that people can't get it unless God enables them (John 6:65)
SO I need to love.
7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. made complete in us.
16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.
1 John 4:7-8, 16-17
I'm not talking about the humanistic love that comes from human effort. I'm talking about the type of love that only comes from God. The love that produces tears for the people you love. The love of Christ.
1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13
I can definitely fathom many mysteries, my faith is pretty strong and yeah I can speak in tongues (by God's grace)
but heck I DON'T HAVE LOVE!!!!!!!!!!
I think the grace God has given me has actually made me love LESS because I become so prideful. Which is completely mind blowing because it shows that it really IS grace and how He gives it to us even when we're so undeserving!
SO yeah I need to SEE myself as a sinner saved by grace and then see everyone else as a sinner that needs grace or a sinner like myself who is saved by grace.
I need to stop looking down on others.
What helps is remembering the cross constantly and how it paid for EVERYTHING even the pride that I hide as I think of it. The instant I think about it, my perspective on everything shifts from a feeling of superiority to a sense of thankfulness and want to show others that love and grace.
