How can we become more like Jesus? We need to be filled with His love. Romans 5:5 NIrV- “And hope will never let us down. God has poured his love into our hearts. He did it through the Holy Spirit, whom he has given to us.”
How do you know if a person is filled with the Holy Spirit? The more loving they are, the more of the Spirit. If we love one another as Jesus does, people will know that we are His disciples (John 13:34-35).
Ephesians 3:16-20 NIV “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.”
God’s love is measureless. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, He can fill you with love.
What does the power of love do? It brings forgiveness of sin, it breaks down dominion of sin,
frees us from bondage of sin, corrects us, removes all prejudice, fosters humility, motivates us to obedience. Love never fails.
1 Thessalonians 3:11-13 NIV “Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you. May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.”
What we will achieve when we’re filled with God of love? We become holy and blameless. Sin is the opposite of love. There is nothing loving about sin.
“Love…does not seek its own” (1 Cor. 13:5 NKJV). As we put God first, the fog of selfishness will clear up and we will naturally seek the good of others which will leave us with an experience that fulfills the words of Christ, “inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’” (Matt. 25:40 NKJV). May the Lord fill our hearts with His love that will illuminate the world with His glory!
Amanda Colgan
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