Monday, March 2, 2009

TRUE LOVE SETS ASIDE SELF AND SELF-ESTEEM

Posted by George Soepboer Sr

True love sets aside self and all self-esteem and only lives by the Holy Spirit of God.

True love never seeks to pamper self-love and never seeks self-interest love, and never seeks for self-esteem love. True love only seeks to love without self-love, and true love only seeks the glory of God who is love.
( Philippians 2:3 ).

When our works of love make us feel good then we live in self-love, but then we do not act in love for that is not true love.
( 2 Timothy 3:1-2 ).

When we pamper our feelings then we think we do acts of love then our, act of love are self-glorification not acts of love. True love does not seek praise from others but only loves.
( John 12:43 ).

True love will not seek self-recognition for true love comes from a heart of love that does not know that it loves.
( Micah 6:8 ).

If we, seek recognition for an act of love that is not true love for that is self-love, and when we, feel sad or pain within because we are not, recognized by others for our acts of love then our act of love are self-centered acts of love. In addition, when feelings of hate or dislike come into our heart and mind because people do not return love for our love, then we are not living in love.
( Luke 6:27-36 ).

True love does not seek love, for when we seek to be rewarded by for love then we do not have true love.
( Matthew 7:15-23 ).

God will only recognize an act of true love, and God will only reward true love, for all other acts of love will receive it reward from people, not from God.
( 1 Corinthians chapter 13 ).

True love is willing to deny oneself by an act of love and is willing to suffer for others by an act of love, and is willing die for others by an act of love.
( Ephesians 5:1 ).

We cannot remove self-centered feelings without truly placing our life in the hands of God, for we can only be set free from our self-centered life by God. Self pampers pride cannot kill pride we can only be made free from pride by God. However, if we place ourselves into the hands of God then we will be made free from self by God.
( Romans 6:18 ).

We cannot do the will of God and walk in the way of God without the molding hands of God. For our will and way are never the will and way of God. However, we can do the will of God and walk in the way of God if we place our will in the hands of God, for only God can make people walk in the will and way of God.
( Isaiah 45:9 ).

If we seek to walk in the way of God or we seek to do the will of God without placing our will in the hands of God then we are not living for God. Then we are living for satan and then we walk in the way of satan, not in the way of God. For then we are doing the will of satan, not the will of God.
( Revelation 3:14-22 ).

It is only by the grace of God that we can live for God and do acts of love that please God, anything else is man made love not true love.
( Ephesians 2:8-9 ).

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