In
1Corinthians
chapter 13, if you substitute the word 'charity' with the word 'love'.(which
is correct according to the original Greek),
you will notice the attributes of love. In this chapter all the qualities
of love are to do with relations with people.
May love's blessings be always
around you!
John
14:23 ".....If a man loves me he will keep.(original
Greek is 'guard from escape or loss').my
words.(they
are important to him, just like you take seriously the words of one who
may be dear to you).and
my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our
abode with him." 1John 3:18,19
"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in
deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth and shall
assure our hearts before him."
1John
2:10 "He that loves his brother abides in the
light and there is none occasion of stumbling.(original
Greek is 'to place by accident or design, something in front of another
that causes him difficulty').in
him." Romans 13:10 "Love works
no ill to his neighbour, therefore love is the fulfilling of the
law.".Love
rids all wars.
Learn love. Love is of higher
consciousness. Contrast the low consciousness ego level of life. Here the
ego is always working to ensure actions are judged right and watching for
anything that could be construed as wrong. Those in high consciousness
never concern themselves with such a separatist view of living. It's just
too stressful.
A paraphrase
of this verse from the original Greek after comparing various translations
–.'He who is
loving his brother, remains in the light and there is in him no ability
to cause another to stumble'.
Love is the key to a smoother
life if an individual loves without holding back. People hold back because
they fear offending, being offended and/or criticism:.Psalms
119:165 "Great peace have they which love your law and nothing shall
offend them."
When you love, you cannot
do anything unloving, as James.(James
3:10-12).shows
here. By not doing what you can to love, you are actually cursing the other.
When
you love, you can be sure that you are unendingly in
the will of God. So, if others are reacting to you as if you do not
love them, that is your checkpoint!
The way of war is the way
of death:.Jeremiah
21:8.
The way to war.(and
why people steal, kill and destroy).comes
from a feeling of lack;
one does not steal unless he feels lack in some area, even maybe emptiness
inside. Being in Christ.(what
'Christ' means).precludes
the 'need' to steal, to cheat, to gain unfair advantage over others:.2Peter
1:3; 2Corinthians 3:5;
9:8;
1:20.
Proverbs
28:24 "Whoso robs his father or his mother and says It is no transgression,
the same is the companion of a destroyer.".Don't
steal! It's on the path of killing another in some way. It takes another
down and is as bad as beating another up; hurtful, harmful.
Proverbs
9:17,18 "Stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
But he knows not that the dead are there and that her guests are in the
depths of hell.".What
really
is hell?
People steal for themselves.
They have little or no effective feelings of concern for those who may
need help:.Ephesians
4:28 "Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working
with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have something to give
to him that needs.".We
exist.(or,
should).for
the welfare of others.
The
way to peace is found in God:.Romans
3:11-18; Isaiah 59:8; Luke
1:79;
In
Christ, meaning having His nature of love within you, there is no lack:.James
4:1-3 "From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not
hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? You lust.(original
is "desire for pleasures" {nothing wrong with having desires}, however
lust
carries with it the connotation
of excessive {Christ's love nature is not number one in the heart and mind
and selfisnmess reigns supreme} desire to selfishly have things {Mark
4:19} to elevate ourselves, to make us greater in the eyes of others,
to satisfy ourselves even with harmful things to us and to another {Romans
12:21}. Selfishness always produces heartaches in life and in this
are 'deceitful lusts'; deceitful in that, you feel good, but others are
hurting, needing the love that you could be showing in word and
deed, this being left out of the picture. God is concerned about others
{John 3:16,17} and gave Himself for
the world).and
have not. You kill.(hate
is equal to murder).and
desire.(original
is "affected to the point of burning" or, 'just got to have it').to
have and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you have not, because you
ask.(to
ask, you first have to desire, to want).not.(a
selfishly minded person stubbornly wants to 'do it his own way').
You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it
upon your lusts.(no
caring for others here)."
John
8:44 "You are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father
you will do. He was a murderer.(includes
other than physical murder – he desires to get you into corruption to destroy
you and others any way he can).from
the beginning and abode.(stayed).not
in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he
speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it."
Lust is an
ego thing, and is what leads one into the available corruption in the
world:.2Peter
1:4.
And he pumps you and others
every chance he gets.(and
he gets them because you
inadvertently
give them.{*}),
to get others against you, part of his master plan to get you to this
point.
Selfishness dismisses concerns
over others. Take for example pirated software. Those who steal it, give
no thought, or if they do give some thought, then they just do not care
about the many hours over many months and even years it took sometimes
many programmers to develop a good software product.
Programmers too, have kids
at home that need good times, clothes, hockey equipment, etc. and stealing
from them just hurts.
Many people in the software
company are there.(secretaries,
shippers, etc.).to
assist the company in making a profit, so they can keep their jobs and
live their lives. Their livelihoods depend on software sales. So companies
send out robots to search for embedded codes in their products, to see
who may be stealing and using these illegally copied products. Your name
and/or location can easily be tracked. Why get yourself a bad name?
If you cannot afford it, consider the many free
alternatives out there. And consider, if
you want a lot of money.
