The Devotional –Risen Love

The Devotional –Risen Love

Comment: I do not know of anyone who reads the Gospel of John, chapter 19 without tears. I have read this chapter from time to time over the last forty-six years and not once have come away from it without mourning the death of our Savior. If one stops reading at this chapter, there is little relief from mourning and throughout the remainder of the day, the subject deepens in depression. So do yourself a favor; read chapter 20 too! Tears of mourning will turn rapidly to tears of JOY especially when you get to the section of verses 11-18. (15) “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” (16) “Mary!” Can we capture that moment in Mary’s soul when she recognized her LORD? “Rabboni!” this is the only time this word is used in scripture. Not only does she recognize Jesus her friend, but she also recognized Him as LORD and MASTER.

Devotional: The LOVE of God is MEASURELESS, it is STRONG, it is RICH and it is ETERNALLY FIXED. Like all of God’s Character it is UNCHANGEABLE and at that moment in time, Mary Magdalene saw her friend JESUS as the LORD and MASTER of her life, but not hers only; for she ran to the other disciples to tell them that Jesus had RISEN from the dead.

We TODAY need to see JESUS as RISEN. But first, we need to see His suffering, His death. We need to personally visualize the tomb where our sins were payed if full, the spring garden blooming new life and the events of that Sunday Morning. From mourning to rejoicing in a heartbeat of time. Jesus is ALIVE, New life Eternal; we would do well to believe this TRUTH, but we will do even better when this FRIEND of time and eternity becomes our LORD and MASTER/SAVIOR.

I love God (Jesus is GOD), I hope that you love Him TOO! The real purpose of 1 Corinthians 13.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 

For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.