Weekly Pursuit – Week 4 of October
Verses:
2 Tim. 1:7 “God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and of love and of sobermindedness.”
Excerpts:
The end of 1 Corinthians 12 reveals that love is the most excellent way. How can one be an elder? Love is the most excellent way. How can one be a co-worker? Love is the most excellent way. How do we shepherd people? Love is the most excellent way. Love is the most excellent way for us to prophesy and to teach others. Love is the most excellent way for us to be anything or do anything. Love prevails. We should love everybody, even our enemies. If the co-workers and elders do not love the bad ones, eventually, they will have nothing to do. We must be perfect as our Father is perfect by loving the evil ones and the good ones without any discrimination. We must be perfect as our Father because we are His sons, His species. The Lord Jesus said that He came to be a Physician, not for the healthy ones but for the sick ones. The Lord said, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill”.
Paul said, “To the weak I became weak that I might gain the weak”. That is love. We should not consider that others are weak but we are not. That is not love. Love covers and builds up, so love is the most excellent way for us to be anything and to do anything for the building up of the Body of Christ. ( CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” pp. 124-127)
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