Video Transition Illustration: Love Boldly Bluefish Tv – Maybe we could call rephrase it “Love Well in 2022”
The challenge for 2022 – Are you willing to commit to “Love Well” this new year?
Poem:
I am the New Year.
I am an unspoiled page in your book of time.
I am your next chance at the art of living.
I am your opportunity
to practice what you have learned during
the last twelve months about life.
All that you sought the past year
and failed to find is hidden in me;
I am waiting for you to search it out
again and with more determination.
All the good that you tried to do
for others and didn't achieve last year
is mine to grant-- providing you have
fewer selfish and conflicting desires.
In me lies the potential
of all that you dreamed but didn't
dare to do, all that you hoped
but did not perform.
All you prayed for
but did not yet experience -
these dreams slumber lightly,
waiting to be awakened by the touch
of an enduring purpose -
I am your opportunity
to renew your allegiance to Him who said,
"behold, I make all things new."
I am the new year.
Author Unknown - "Behold, I make all things new." Rev 21:5
Love Well - 2022 series
Thesis: To be able to love well means I have to embrace the 4 letter word “Love” in its original definition and application – Because that word “Love” has been twisted and distorted by this world – But the true meaning of love goes back to God’s meaning of love!
Scripture Text:
John 13:34-35: Jesus said, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
1 John 4:7-10: 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Introduction:
LOVE’s original definition is spelled out in Scripture - “God is love” says 1 John 4:8 or to reverse this thought “Love is God” God created and defined what Love is and what it should look like and act like. John 1:1 tells us Jesus and God are one which also implies that Jesus is God’s love manifested in the flesh – in other words a recognizable expression of love in the flesh that all can see and model.
We have decided as a staff and creative team to focus on “Loving Well” in 2022!
Some of our focuses this year will be the following:
-We will be talking about how we love other people outside of the church, who are different from us, think
different than us, believe different than us. But love will help us bridge the gap with them and impact them with the love of Jesus!
-We will be talking about how to love and appreciate those in our church, the behind the scene’s people, the volunteers, the people who sacrifice to make this place make a difference for the Kingdom.
-We will be talking about how to break out of your box, or rut and seek to connect with God and with other people. We will even talk how to love your neighbors well, your classmates well, your city well and your church family well.
-We will be talking about what it means to walk out the gospel in a Jesus way filled with acts of love.
-We will be talking about learning peoples Love language’s so we can connect together and connect people with each other and the Lord.
The challenge: But that 4 letter word “Love” needs to be redefined today. Why? Because we need to make sure we understand what “Love” really is. So, to get a Biblical understanding of this word let’s make sure we define what love is not.
Pretty much everything you see in romantic movies or read about in romantic novels or watch in romantic sitcoms is not genuine love instead it’s actually a cheap fake or fraud to real love. I could also say it’s a cheap substitute for the real thing – for the real deal – the enemy of our heart desires us to embrace a “Love” that is not rooted in God.
Reality Check: Every person is on a search for real love and that can only be found in God alone. Many are in frantic search for it but cannot find it because they are looking for love in all the wrong places. The media lies and proclaims this is love, that is love, and even diamonds are love! LOVE has been redefined by this fallen world – this why so many cannot find real love – the world throws everything into the love category and it is use’s this word very carelessly and even distorts its original meaning. So throw out the world’s definition of love and seek it through the eyes and the heart of the Lord.
We have talked a lot about the importance of creating a healing church, a church filled with renewal last year. Our topic for 2022 gives us more insight and wisdom into how a church really becomes known for unleashing the power of healing, hope and life changing love.
1. To understand the true meaning of love let’s look into the famous Love chapter of 1 Corinthians 13:
a. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13(CEV):
i. What if I could speak all languages of humans and of angels? If I did not love others, I would be nothing more than a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. What if I could prophesy and understand all secrets and all knowledge? And what if I had faith that moved mountains? I would be nothing, unless I loved others. What if I gave away all that I owned and let myself be burned alive? I would gain nothing, unless I loved others. Love is kind and patient, never jealous, boastful, proud, or rude. Love isn’t selfish or quick tempered. It doesn’t keep record of wrongs that others do. Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil. Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful, and trusting. Love never fails! Everyone who prophesies will stop, and unknown languages will no longer be spoken. All that we know will be forgotten. We don’t know everything, and our prophecies are not complete. But what is perfect will someday appear, and what isn’t perfect will then disappear. When we were children, we thought and reasoned as children do. But when we grew up, we quit our childish ways. Now all we can see of God is like a cloudy picture in a mirror. Later we will see him face to face. We don’t know everything, but then we will, just as God completely understands us. For now there are faith, hope, and love. But of these three, the greatest is love.
1. Paul told us in 1 Cor. 13 that there is a way to live as a Christian which is called the “most excellent way – I will call it ‘Loving Well’.” This is the optimum way to act and to function as a Christian and as a church of Jesus Christ in a loveless world. The premise and the methodology of living excellently is “The way of love.” Paul tells us that this path is greater than all the gifts he just spoken and taught about in this letter.
a. “Love is greater” – Yes, it’s greater than faith and hope because love creates faith and hope!
i. Did you catch that truth – Love is Greater than these other two powerhouses of life!
ii. Why did Paul focus in on love in his letter to the Corinthian Christians – Let me give you a quick background on the city and culture of the Greek city of Corinth.
1. It was a wicked city with many temples of prostitution, temples where sexual immorality was used to worship gods and goddesses. In this city there was a total distortion of what love was and is. In this city love was associated with lust and sexual immorality – there view of love was completely distorted and filled with evil practices centered in on idolatry – it was a city which had Altars dedicated to a lifestlye of sexual immorality! They really believed this pleased the gods and goddesses of the area and doing these things would bring favor to your life-meaning to your life. Yes, they thought as secular culture that worshipping these gods and goddesses in a sexually idolatrous way would bring happiness, fulfillment and purpose to their lives.
a. Paul in our chapter wants to correct this distortion of the meaning of the word LOVE. Paul wants the church of Corinth to bring it back to what God means when He says, “Love one another!”
b. Are you tracking with me church?
iii. Personal testimony Love (Biblical love) is a subject that is near and dear to my own heart.
1. When I first became a Christian I spent a year studying about one subject in the Bible and that subject was love.
2. I was fascinated by the subject and drawn to it like a magnet because I felt unloved and clueless to what love looked like or acted like in real life.
3. Yet the Bible kept telling me that God was love and He loved so much he sent His son to die for me – this repeatedly blew my mind and heart up.
4. I learned that to be a Christian meant to act and be like Christ and the first description of Jesus was - He loved the people – even the sinners caught in the trap of sin.
a. I recall reading about the women caught in adultery in John 8: 1-11:
i. 8:1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
ii. 2At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.
iii. 3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group
iv. 4and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
v. 5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”
vi. 6They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
vii. 7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”
viii. 8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
ix. 9At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.
x. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
xi. 11“No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
1. When I read this story in the Bible for the first time – it amazed me – not the reaction of the religious leaders but the reaction of Jesus to this woman caught in the act of sexual sin – Jesus defended her – and then forgave her and instructed her, “Go and sin no more!” Now this is “Loving Well” Jesus’ in this act of Love - role-modeled for us how we should love others! It still amazes me how loving Jesus is to us sinners!
5. This study on love during my first year of salvation changed my life and my perspective on that word “Love.” Actually, my very first sermon I ever preached was on the subject of love!
a. Pull out red book highlight some thoughts!
b. Back to Paul and his thoughts in 1 Cor. 13 – he emphasizes that it’s time for the church to grow up spiritually as Christians and embrace the way of true love.
i. Loving the God way – the Jesus way - is the greatest way to serve God as a Christian and to serve others. There is no substitute for true love!
1. Love is the only way into Heaven, so we need to lose the performance spiritual agendas and pick up the agenda of loving others as the most excellent way.
2. Why Love is the language and the lifestyle of Heaven so we need to embrace it now and speak it now and live it now.
a. Illustration: Love Demonstrated: A class of little girls was learning to spell. They spelled a number of small words, such as “pig,” “cat,” “dog,” “cow,” and amused themselves by imitating the sounds that these animals make. Then little Mary was asked to spell “love.” She didn’t stop to give the letters, but ran and threw her arms around the teacher’s neck and kissed her on the cheek. “We spell ‘love’ that way at our house,” she said. The girls laughed, but the teacher said, “That is a beautiful way; but do you know another way to spell ‘love’?” “Oh, yes,” cried Mary, “I spell love this way,” and she began to put the books in order on her teacher’s desk. “I spell love by helping everybody when they need me.” (From Illustrations of Bible Truth).
i. Can we love well like this in 2022?
ii. Paul tells us that out of the three great spiritual perspectives for life: faith, hope and love – love is the greatest – Why because God equals love – He is the living entity of love!
1. The bottom line is this LOVE is the greatest way to live your life – it’s the greatest way to survive in this world, it’s the greatest because it’s rooted in John 3:16! God is love and we need to be like God!
a. Illustration from Illustrations Unlimited: Spurgeon states, “Once, while riding in the country, I saw on a farmer’s barn a weather vane on the arrow of which was inscribed these words: “God is Love.” I turned in at the gate and asked the farmer, “What do you mean by that? Do you think God’s love is changeable; that it veers about as that arrow turns in the winds?” The farmer said, “Oh, no! I mean that whichever way the wind blows, God is still Love.” Charles H. Spurgeon
i. Question: Do we believe that?
ii. I bought my wife a Anniversary card this year as we celebrated our 37 years of marriage:
1. Hold up card – notice the focus of the card – the title of the card “Life changes, Love stays!”
a. Read the inside:
iii. Love is the key to greatness in this world and beyond – it’s the key to the true meaning of life –it’s the key to the entrance into Heaven.
1. How important is love? It’s essential if we want to create a place of healing and hope for others in this crazy loveless world today?
a. Illustration “Love Needed”: Some years ago, Dr. Karl Menninger, noted doctor and psychologist, was seeking the cause of many of his patients’ ills. One day he called in his clinical staff and proceeded to unfold a plan for developing, in his clinic, an atmosphere of creative love. All patients were to be given large quantities of love; no unloving attitudes were to be displayed in the presence of the patients, and all nurses and doctors were to go about their work in and out of the various rooms with a loving attitude. At the end of six months, the time spent by patients in the institution was cut in half (From Illustrations of Bible Truths).
i. Dispensing love does bring about healing in people’s lives!
ii. We need to administer this loving lifestyle in this church and school – the church must choose to “Love Well” if we want to be a place that facilitates and creates a healing environment for others who are hurting.
2. The comparison of love verse lust – these two four letter words are usually grouped together in the world we live but in the eyes of God they are opposites:
a. The Bible repeatedly tries to warn us of the consequences of lust (which is not love) and reminds us of the benefits of true love. Paul knew that the Corinthians outside of the Lord had the wrong definition of love. This is why he pens 1 Corinthians 13 – he wanted the church to know the difference between God’s love and the worlds definition of love.
i. Dan Corner notes: “In the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord Jesus shocked the people of His day when He equated lust to ADULTERY! His actual words are: "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed ADULTERY with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into HELL." Please note the serious consequences of lust (mental adultery). According to Jesus, it's possible to end up in Hell over this! Therefore, this sin must not be taken lightly, as many people do even in our society today.”
1. Matthew 5: 27-30: 27 Jesus said, “You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ 28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
2. Jesus warns us that lust leads to bondage and bondage is not a way to live your life – it will only bring heartache, heartbreak and pain:
a. Lust...
i. Lust destroyed my love
ii. Lust pushed away my one
iii. Lust made me weak
iv. Lust took the one love
v. Lust killed my happiness
vi. Lust is a sin I committed
vii. Lust, I shouldn't had done
viii. Lust got my suffocating
ix. Lust made light turn into darkness
x. Lust made me miss my wife
xi. Lust, my innocent girl is hurt
xii. Lust I hurt myself too
xiii. Lust I miss my family I built
xiv. Lust, you were my biggest mistake.... Joy O'Pateng
b. One LOVE brings blessings while the other misguided word love brings cursing’s, pain and torment:
i. Love’s consequences is always as Paul points out rooted in good things:
1. Love gives us everything we really desire
2. Love is patient
3. Love is kind
4. Love does not envy
5. Love is not boastful
6. Love is not proud
7. Love is not rude
8. Love is not self-seeking
9. Love is not easily angered
10. Love does not keep record of wrongs
11. Love delights in truth
12. Love protects
13. Love trusts
14. Love hopes
15. Love perseveres
16. Love never fails
17. Love is the greatest
ii. Lust’s (No Love – Loveless) consequences on the other hand are rooted in hurtful things, bad things, evil things, and pain:
1. Lust steals everything away we desire
2. Lust is impatient
3. Lust is cruel
4. Lust envies others
5. Lust is boastful
6. Lust is prideful
7. Lust is rude to others
8. Lust is self-centered
9. Lust is easily angered
10. Lust keeps score of wrongs
11. Lust hates truth
12. Lust takes advantage
13. Lust distrusts others
14. Lust has no hope
15. Lust gives up
16. Lust always fails
17. Lust is the worst way to live
c. The two mindsets are always at war in our hearts and minds – it’s the battle between the flesh and the spirit:
i. Love gives us everything we crave for in life and brings – joy, peace, hope and faith!
1. Lust on the other hand will steal everything away from us and leave us desolate and destitute. It’s appetite will never be satisfied and lives in the real of shame-blame and condemnation!
ii. Love is patient - the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like – love endures with the assistant of God and His presence.
1. Lust is never patient it wants now, it’s selfish desires are fulfilled at any cost. Lust is at the root of date rape, and rape in general. Can you see why Jesus said pluck it out – cut it off!
iii. Love is kind - friendly feeling; liking, of a good or benevolent nature or disposition, as a person: a kind and loving person is a person filled with love – like Jesus was.
1. Lust is not kind because it demands from others and even takes from others without respect for the other’s feelings.
iv. Love does not envy – which is a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard, to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.
1. Lust envies what others have and then seeks to take it for themselves. By the way lusts can be looked at as greed, self-centeredness and self-glorification!
v. Love does not boast - to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, esp. about oneself and one’s accomplishments.
1. Lust loves to boast about its victims to others as a mark of success – ever been around someone who talks about his or her conquests?
vi. Love is not prideful - a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc. By the way this is what got the religious leaders in trouble with Jesus!
1. Lust is proud of its conquests, dominance and defeats and thinks the other person or victim should be happy that I even acknowledge them.
vii. Love is not rude - discourteous or impolite, esp. in a deliberate way: a rude reply.
1. Lust is always impolite and rude to others. It see’s others as pieces of meat, not a person created in the image of God, as a person to use and abuse, as a nobody with no meaning or value.
viii. Love is not self-seeking - devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
1. Illustration: The Christian Grocer - A Christian grocer was in financial difficulties because his customers thought they could run up their bills indefinitely. They felt that such a saintly man would never press them for payment or take them to court. Their ready excuse was, “We don’t have money to pay our bills.” “How can I pay my creditors, if the people I have trusted do not pay me?” puzzled the grocer. What should a Christian do in such a case—believe all things and all men and go bankrupt? A novel idea came to him. He posted the following notice on the bulletin board in front of his store: “On this bulletin board, thirty days from now, will appear the names of all persons who have been indebted to me for one year or more and who, after repeated requests, have refused to pay! Some have told me that they are unable to pay, but they are able to build homes, drive cars, and have other things that I could have if I had the money due me. I hope I don’t have to put any names on the board, but I won’t be put off any longer!” Results followed immediately. Many paid their old accounts, while others promised to do so on the next payday. This grocer’s action was wholly consistent with Christian love. He refused to believe the falsehoods of others and by so doing didn’t allow them to continue in deceit and dishonesty. Love believes all things that encourages honesty and virtue in others. Love does not believe lies but endeavors to correct them.
2. Lust puts its own needs and wants ahead of everyone else and twists the truth about its victims!
ix. Love is not easily angered - feeling or showing anger or strong resentment to others.
1. Lust snubs others quickly and without regret it uses anger to ration it’s lack of attention and care for others. Anger is also a part of some rapes and people without love get angry very easily – because they choose the path of anger over love.
x. Love keeps no record of wrongs – instead it forgives and lets them go forever!
1. Lust keeps score and gets even – lust and it’s demon host always keeps score of how people caught in this sin fail and fail and fail.
xi. Love does not delight in evil – love instead delights in the good and shuns (rejects) the evil. Love rejoices in the truth – love seeks to live by what is true – what is of God!
1. Lust rejoices in the act of evil. It then afterwards desires more.
a. At The Altar of Sexual Adultery quote:
i. “The initial step into sin is allowing the thought of temptation to fester. It is extremely difficult to thwart the process of thought once entertained. James said that a person is tempted ‘when carried away and enticed by his own lust…’…This is not something that he does not want to do. On the contrary, it is exactly what he wants to do.” (Gallagher page 85)
ii. Here is the truth about how many deceive themselves about sin – “I don’t want to do it- but really I do want to do it! So, I do it and then tell myself I did not want to it carried me into it – no you allowed yourself to carried into it!”
1. Jesus said, “Go and sin no more – leave you life of sin!”
xii. Love always protects – Love cares for and protects others by shielding them from the injustices of this world.
1. Lust never protects it takes advantage of others and exploits them.
xiii. Love always trusts – love trusts with a faith that does not waver in doubt.
1. Lust will never trust anyone.
xiv. Love always hopes - the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
1. Lust has no hope because it lives for the moment then when the moment is gone seeks another short fix with no fulfillment.
xv. Love always perseveres - to persist in anything undertaken; maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement; continue steadfastly.
1. Illustration: Love in Deed and Truth: A young man spent an entire evening telling a girl how much he loved her. He said that he could not live without her; that he would go to the ends of the earth for her; yes, go through fire for her, or die for her. However, on leaving, he said, “I’ll see you tomorrow night if it doesn’t rain.” How often we say we love God yet deny it by our actions. Christ will give His crown of life only to those who love Him in deed and in truth (From Illustrations of Bible Truths).
2. Lust quits and gives up on others and even on itself. Lust does not stick through a relationship when it gets tough.
xvi. Love never fails - God is love and he has never failed nor will he fail!
1. Lust will always lead to failure and un-fulfillment in life.
xvii. Love is the more excellent way. Why? Remember John 3:16 from above?
1. Lust is the way of death and destruction! It will bring death not life!
d. Paul makes it clear in this section of Scripture what love looks and how love acts. Paul then tells us to make sure we live the life of love because it is the only thing that will last in the end. In the comparison chart above we see that lust does fulfill the promise to destroy your life. It never makes things better instead it makes things worse.
i. Quote: Sweeting, “Love is the Greatest” page 9 “Our world is starving for love. Deep down inside every human being. God has planted a thirst for Himself that is never satisfied until we are united with Him” (Real LOVE).
ii. Quote - Sweeting – Love is the Greatest - page 122 “God’s love is not cheap or sentimental. It is priceless and incomparable. The way of love is God’s way, and His way is the only way to abundant and victorious living. It is the best way. Life apart from God’s love is failure. In fact, living without love is merely existing! The prize of love can be gained when we are willing to pay the price. It may involve heartbreak, suffering, disappointment, frustration, exhaustion, and tears. The call to love is not for the halfhearted. It is a full-time, lifelong vocation. Though it is not an easy road, it is a satisfying one. Those who embark on it would never turn back for any simple pleasures of the old turned-in way of life. It is the exciting peak that must be climbed, the zenith of all Christian experience. Love is the greatest!
T.S. – Since we are now into a new year, I think it is time to break out of the old ways – the new year should challenge us to break out of self-centered ways and embrace the idea of loving others well. So how do we break out of the ruts of life and choose to “Love Well”?
3. Here are some signs that you may be going through the stuck in the rut phase of life and love:
a. You are not looking forward to activities you used to love.
b. You want to be creative, but it’s impossible to think of something inspiring.
c. Even if you are finishing your tasks, you still feel stuck and think you’re not getting anything done.
d. When you have free time, you can’t bring yourself to do anything productive.
e. You always fantasize about getting out of your situation
f. You start to feel jealous of other people
g. You are always bored, even while doing fun activities
h. Your mental health is degrading, and you’d rather be alone than spend time with friends.
i. 10 Tips on How to Get Out of a Rut
1. Try Something New and different that is wholesome and loving
2. Stop Making Excuses – be honest with yourself!
3. Stop Limiting Yourself and saying you cannot do it!
4. Don't Let Your Trauma Hold You Back!
5. Try a New Environment with true love at its core
6. Purge Your Home
a. Guard you house and eliminate the loveless messages in it and seducing spirits!
7. Romanticize Everyday Things as from God
8. Figure Out How Deep Your Rut Is – and determine to get out of it
9. Determine Where in Your Life You Feel Discontent and seek to change it
10. Start Off Small and Gradually Set Goals to get free
a. From https://www.lifehack.org/822905/how-to-get-out-of-a-rut
Conclusion:
Steve states the following about getting out of ruts of sin and loveless living “The spirit of this world creates spiritual atmospheres conducive to lust (loveless ways). The Apostle John said, “Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. And the world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God abides forever.” (1 John 2:15-17) The world is full of lust. In practical terms, the spirit of this world capitalizes upon the fact that humans have carnal desires which are innate within them: the lust for pleasure, the lust for gain, and the lust for position. The enemy constantly attempts to create certain atmospheres which are tailor-made for the particular lust within us. Hence, the devil is called “the prince of the power of the air.” For instance, if one were to go to a mall, he would find an atmosphere there which promotes covetousness. Women especially are vulnerable to the displays in the clothing stores. There is a spiritual climate there which provokes people to want more and more and more. Another example would be going to a boxing match. This environment incites pride, anger and ultimately, violence. These things can actually be felt “in the air.” If one goes into a bar, the ambience puts him in a partying mood. Nevertheless, it is the enemy at work in each of these settings.” Gallagher, Steve. At the Altar of Sexual Idolatry (p. 225-226). Pure Life Ministries. Kindle Edition.
What do we need to know?
Answer: We need to choose and be intentional about loving well and for us to love well means we need to connect with the Spirit of the Lord and disconnect from loveless ways and habits.
Why do we need to know this?
Answer: We need to know the Holy Spirit if asked will help us love others well!
What do they need to do?
Answer: Commit to loving well and ridding themselves with the Lord Jesus help free from loveless acts!
Why do they need to do this?
Answer: To have a meaningful year requires us to get out of our ruts and into a new path that leads to happiness and contentment and gratitude.
