Love Must be Worked into Us

Is there someone you love that you would like to reach with a remedy you think would really help them? I’ve been there and I found that the person wanting to help another was often suffering more than the person to be helped because they were laboring to get through to them. This labor calls for extreme patience and prayer for their breakthrough and for the rough edges of our character to be refined in the process.

I discovered that people can be bitter and have walls up. Something has happened in their life which made them not want to trust anyone but their own way.

It is easy to love those we love and choose but what about the prickly ones God chooses for us? I have to remind myself that he is working something in me at the same time. You have to be a transparent friend and open yourself up before you can expect to have a friend. The Word says that they will know God’s disciples by their love for one another.

Here is an old song by First Call-“Undivided”

These lyrics are awesome and right on:

We may worship different ways,
We may praise Him
And yet spend all of our days
Living life divided.

But when we seek Him with open hearts
He removes the walls we built
That keep us apart
We trust Him to unite us.

In our hearts, we’re undivided
Worshiping one Savior, one Lord
In our hearts, we’re undivided
Bound by His spirit forevermore,
Undivided!

It doesn’t matter if we agree
All He asks is that we serve Him faithfully
And love as He first loved us,
He made us in His image

And in His eyes, we are all the same.
And though our methods they may be different,
Jesus is the bond that will remain.

In our hearts, we’re undivided,
Worshiping one Savior, one Lord
In our hearts, we’re undivided,
Bound by His spirit, lost in his love!
Undivided!

Love must be worked into us. Sometimes people annoy us. If that happens with you, pray this prayer:

Lord, I can’t do it but you can reach this person through me! Chisel the rough edges off of me where I can give that unconditional love of yours to others! Unite us by your spirit. AMEN