08 24 07 In All Sincerity….

“Love from the center of who you are; don't fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good”. (Romans 12:9 MSG)

I usually don’t read this translation, but it was so relevant to some things I am experiencing nowadays. As we struggle for finances every month, prayerfully do our best in raising our children as they go through young adulthood, teen-age, and toddler years, help with our parents’ health issues (dementia particularly) and study for college school work, we have been the recipient of so much sincere love!

God has provided us with family members who really care for us. He has given us friends who think nothing of dropping off groceries to our door unannounced. Not to mention the many of you who cheerfully give from you hard-earned money that we may continue to follow God’s call as missionaries. Our church and the staff there have been beside us since the day we let them know how God touched our hearts. The Lord has indeed provided and will continue, through sincere friends and family.

Love can’t be faked! It must come form the center of our core……our heart. We know it by comparing it to the real thing, the original love if you will; God the Father! He so loved us that yet while we were sinners, His enemies, he sent His Son Jesus Christ to die a brutal death, only to raise Him up three days later to conquer death and gain for us eternal life with Him; if we choose to accept it! As believers, we are to hold onto love (Christ) with dear life, because our life depends upon Him. It is this kind of love that my wife and I experience daily……and we THANK YOU!

Thank you for giving from your heart and showing us how much the Lord really cares for us. It blows me away how He’ll send His love in the form of a letter, an e-mail, a $10.00 check a $1,000 check, or a sincere “how are you doing” and a warm and sincere hug! He even sends His love via a discipling Bible lesson! Amen?

As we love, we show Christ to the world. As Paul wrote to the Romans from the carnal city of Corinth around A.D. 56-58; don’t fake it. Let’s love from the center of where we are……our hearts! How appropriate a REMINDER today!