You go to church regularly, you pray when asked to pray, you sing and dance and as well give offerings when due, you pay your tithe, you refrain yourself from fighting, clubbing, drinking of alcohol, smoking of cigarette, fornicating,...
You go to church regularly, you pray when asked to pray, you sing and dance and as well give offerings when due, you pay your tithe, you refrain yourself from fighting, clubbing, drinking of alcohol, smoking of cigarette, fornicating, and so on but still yet you notice you are missing something.
You notice that when you pray and fast to make your prayers get quick answers, it’s as if you are just wasting your time, because your prayers don’t get answers. You are troubled because you don’t know where you are getting it wrong. So you ask yourself “what am i missing?”
When you carefully observe to make your ways right with God and you are not in good terms with your brother, you are only wasting your efforts in serving God.The Bible says that if any man claims he loves God and does not love his neighbour; he is a liar. For you have not loved your brother whom you have seen, then how would you love God Whom you haven’t seen.
What you are missing is love. Love is a principal thing in the face of God. God so much cherishes the world that he gave us His only begotten son, Christ. And with love, Christ volunteered Himself as a sacrificial lamb for the atonement of man’s sin. If you have all the spiritual gifts in the world and you don’t have love, as Apostle Paul had said, you are just a empty vessel making noise everywhere. You must learn to call ‘love’ back into your heart, because that is the dwelling place for it. The heart needs to feed the mind with messages full of love. And your body needs to listen to your heart.
Whom should I love?
Christ preached love to His followers telling them whom they should love. In His statement, He clarified that showing love to friends is not just the extreme degree of showing love. He taught them to love their enemies and even pray for them. He said this to them explaining how the Father(God) shows love to every mankind by giving His sun to shine on them, and His rain to pour on them. Although it’s not an easy task to face your enemy and begin to show your kind attitude to him/her. It only takes maturity and obedience. You should love your enemies, which is what Christ demands from you. Because by so doing, you are leaving your enemies powerless to be able to hurt you when they gather to put you to shame. Therefore Christ does not teach you to hate your enemies, instead He tells you to feed them when they are hungry, clothe them when they need cloth. Because by doing these, you are heaping coals of fire on them.