Faith Vs Love Series

FAITH VS LOVE IS THERE A LINK

To understand this resolution, we need to have a look at each one of these aspects

Faith and Love

Are they bound together and linked without separation?

Marriage – Love someone – you are faithful to them.

Child – Love my son – I will faithfully look after him and bring him up

Pets – Dog loves his owner – he is very faithful.

Divine Plan – God so loved the world gave only son – attain everlasting life – need to have faith.

MIGHT OF THESE WORDS

Love

I love you. I will never stop loving you. Unending love. You can even add it to a simple word like story and it changes everything. Now its not just a story, it’s a love story. The word love has weight.

Faith

I have faith in you my son. Tied to our essence – our beliefs. Its our belief in something. Tell story of abseiling/sky diving – faith in equipment. The shoot will open the figure of eight will work. Its things still to happen but we KNOW they will. Yes there is a measure of doubt, but they WILL work.

WHY MIGHTY?

Both of these words are action AND attitude words. They are work and thought, hands and heart.

To give carries far less impact as to love. Loving may imply giving, but it implies the emotion or motivation to give too. Isn’t that why when we receive a gift we always say, it’s the thought that counts. The deed is one thing, but the though as well is something else. Very few words are deed and thought in one.

CHARACTER QUALITIES

The resolution comes down to building your character. What a better way than to show more love and be more faithful.

May be able to quickly know what you can do about showing more love, but when combine love with faithfulness – loyalty mixed with responsibility, truth mixed with a desire for justice.

So in these qualities, thoughts and words merge into one and through what we do in our lives, what we think say and do, our very lives become evidence of how deep our faith and love run.

ACTIONS VS ATTITUDES

Do your actions measure up to your attitude? We may have all the right intentions in the world, but if we don’t follow through with them, we have no love or faith.

Does your attitude measure up to your actions? We may do all the right things outwardly, but if we are not doing them with the right attitude, we have done nothing!

FAITH

FAITHFUL IN WHAT IS SMALL WE WILL BE FAITHFUL IN WHAT IS BIG!

Know that scripture well.

We have turned it around a little. Easy to be faithful in the big things sometimes.

Easier to be faithful in the big things as that’s obvious. Small things – another story.

Turn to Matthew 5

Read from 21.

Mt 5:21,22

Jesus speaks about MURDER. That means we don’t kill. Well that’s easy, but what about ANGER and hatred?

Mt 5:23-26

Jesus shows that our OFFERINGS are important and we know this, but what about our TIME offered or spent in our relationships with God and others?

Mt 5:27-30

We know that we must avoid ADULTRY, but what about keeping our hearts and minds from lustful thoughts?

Mt 5:31,32

We know that DIVORCE is not something that makes God smile, but how are we really doing in our commitment to our marriage AND commitment to how a marriage should be structured scripturally?

Mt 5:33-37

We know that we should always live up to our PROMISES. We seem to be faithful to promises made to man than we are to the ones we make to GOD. We can be at a place on time because that’s what we promised, but we can’t be on time for our quiet time???

Mt 5:38-47

Christ always taught that we do not do well seeking our own REVENGE. But we may have ruled out that vengeful side, but have we replaced it with mercy and true love of our neighbour and others? True Friends.

FAITH SUMMARY

This year, pay attention to the small things. As our lives get busy and we get into the rut Be sure to consider your faith over the things you take for granted. That TV program you should rally turn off, because we don’t have anything to with violence. That tax return that was not completed properly, that item in the check out line that does not swipe and we are not charged. Faith my friends in these small things is what shows our faith in the only means of life. Jesus Christ.

GOD HAS FAITH IN US

That faith that we always say we have in God.