Reduce Me to Love by Joyce Meyer

Author:Joyce Meyer [MEYER, JOYCE]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: REL012000
ISBN: 9780446195478
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2007-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

LOVE NEVER FAILS

The God-kind of love bears up under anything and everything that comes. It endures everything without weakening. It is determined not to give up on even the hardest case. The hard-core individual who persists in being mean can be eventually melted by love.

It is hard to keep showing love to someone who never seems to appreciate it or even respond to it. It is difficult to keep showing love to those individuals who take from us all we are willing to give, but who never give anything back.

We are not responsible for how others act, only how we act. Our reward does not come from man, but from God. Even when our good deeds seem to go unnoticed, God notices and promises to reward us openly for them: “your deeds of charity may be in secret; and your Father Who sees in secret will reward you openly” (Matthew 6:4).

If a person quits and gives up the task God has assigned him because no one is noticing him, he is not serving God from a pure heart. For example, if a woman feels that God wants her to work in the nursery each week at church but quits two months later because not one mother has even thanked her, she was not doing the job to love God and others, but to get love for herself.

This kind of honesty is hard to swallow sometimes, but it is nonetheless true. We must never give up because the demands of love are too hard.

I am so glad that God did not give up on me. How could He? He is love, and love never quits. It is always right there, doing its job. Love knows that if it refuses to quit, it will ultimately win the victory:

And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.

(GALATIANS 6:9)

I realize that some people may refuse to receive our love no matter what we do. They treat God the same way. That does not mean that love has failed. Love upholds us. It gives us joy. It pleases God when we walk in love. Love always has more positive results than anything else.

Don’t fail to walk in love because love never fails!

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