Love or Selfishness? - God's Way or My Way?

The measure of our Love is the measure of our worth to society.

Men are valued according to their financial or political standing in a community. It is a problem of how much money they have or how much political influence they can swing. Yet, in the final analysis, the men who Love are the men who help the community.

Man outside of Love is a failure.

Selfishness is the blighting curse to humans. Love stops the rust of selfishness, preserves the home and Church life from decay.

The lover is like stainless steel which will not rust. Given enough time all steel is destroyed by rust. In the same manner our homes are destroyed by selfishness.

Marriages are wrecked by selfishness. The home life disintegrates because the husband is selfish, and the wife seeks her own. The children are born and grow up in that atmosphere. They go out into life living what they have seen.

It is a well-known fact that children who grow up in Godly homes have a better chance in life than those who grow up in homes where there is quarrelling and bitterness. It is almost impossible to find in any of our penal institutions a young man or woman whose father and mother were both walking in Christian love when the child was born, and while it was growing up.

Love is God's adhesive power that binds us together.


What Have You Done With Love?

We have forgotten that Love will make a man a success.

It will put him over where nothing else would make him a victor.

Love never fails. It is the Masters rule of life.

It will lead a man out of selfishness, out of weakness and failure into the very strength and ability of Christ. There is no force in the world that it cannot dominate.

It makes us wanted.

It makes us a blessing.

It enables us to serve in Jesus' place.

As we enthrone Christ in our hearts love reigns.

As Christ takes control over the kingdom of our spirit, then that wonderful passage in 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 becomes a living reality: "For the love of Christ constraineth us (or in other words, For the love of Christ has gained control, has taken us over), ; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
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Paul's friends had challenged him. They said he was beside himself, but the Love of Christ had so set him on fire that he was slowly burning up.

His very being was saturated with the passion that drove Jesus to the cross.

Now you can understand 1 Co. 10:24 "Let no man seek his own, but each his neighbor's good."

Selfishness Reigns Naturally in All of Our Lives

Selfishness is as deadly poison.

It is poison to the spirit.

It is poison to the Body of Christ.

It is a strange thing how man has never feared selfishness. He fears it in the other man, but not in himself.

It is the cause of all the wars that have come; of all the strikes, the battle between labor and capital, and the strife in politics.

That thing born (selfish pride) in the Garden has grown so mighty that it governs the nations of the earth, and Love is the only thing that can destroy it.

"And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."

I believe that Love is a more excellent way.

I believe it is best to let it govern my life. I have come to believe that it is the best method of ruling a home, a business, and a government.

Only a few folks believe that love is best. They believe in force; they believe in intrigue; they believe in power, knowledge, & logic. If in your heart you believe that the Love way is best, then act it.

Whenever we walk in Love we walk in the light, when we step into selfishness we step into darkness and unhappiness.

Charles Klock
gracebiblefellowship-tx.org