Agape Love of God

Everything people do is good, but if they are not aware that God controls their history focusing on business, they need to pause and think.   

Money of course; alleviates poverty and other problems that man faces. Of course; money lubricates the way people think, as grease lubricates an old squeaking and noisy car.

Nonetheless;  if   people spend  their time and spiritual life to accumulate wealth, everything ends up in vain.  Many who fill their mind with the mentality of accumulating money  up with nothing.

 With the willing of God to be wealthy is good, otherwise; it is an illusion. Without accepting Jesus as their Savior, if they toil day and night to make money without giving their heart for God; their vision of accumulation of wealth becomes meaningless. When this happens, God says:” It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich enter into the Kingdom of God.” See Matthew 19:24.

Love of money and love of God, do not go together.  One cannot serve two masters.  See Matthew 6:24.

Nonetheless; when one comes with a repentance heart, God of agape love says:” Come! I will give you rest. Take my yoke and put it on you. I am gentle and humble in Spirit. I will give you rest...” See Matt. 11:28-30. So, what is the dilemma?  When the Lord says, come, it is good to accept Him as a Savior. For those who say:” Yes,” God reveals His Heavenly secrets.   When God accepts people, their Salvation grows. God does not leave anybody, turning bad things into good, and rolling around, over and over, the wheel of their history, He transforms their faith to a higher spiritual level of understanding.  

Cool! After people receive Jesus as their Savior, their name is recorded in the Book of Life, if not; their name is recorded just in the archives of history.   

N.B.    Some people, even if they do not accept Jesus as their Lord, they know that Jesus is Savior of the world. That is good, but is not enough.  

Knowing about Jesus and accepting Jesus as ones personal Savior are two different things.  To keeping on and wait for the Lord is good. When it comes to reconciliation to move forward and take step is good. King David is a model example in this.  Waiting and focusing on the Lord, he climbed up on the ladder of righteousness.

Just like King David, if a leader fears God, he becomes fair in his administration, honest and just in his character. God rewards him. He writes his name in the Book of life. This is something that we should aspire for.  God Al-Mighty is looking for  right leaders. His eyes are running to and fro to support those, whose heart is perfect to Him. See 2^ND Chronicles 16:9.  

 Therefore; if you want your name to be recorded in the Book of Life, it is wisdom to accept Jesus as your Savior. After that life is simple. Bowing down and kneeling before the Lord, you worship Jesus, King of kings.   See Psalm 95:6-7.

  God, controls history.   Under His guidance, history of the world is going on in accordance to His word.  To grab some clue, let us scan through the triple Os of God.      

           1) Omnipotent God- means God is all powerful- Things impossible for man are possible for Omnipotent God. See Matthew. 19:26. El- Shaddai, is one of the Hebrew names of God. It means God Al-Mighty, or All sufficient Mighty God.   

2)  Omniscient God means- Al-Mighty God knows everything.  His understanding is without limit.  See Psalm 147:5. Wisdom is from God. He shares His wisdom with Jesus. So, Jesus knows Father God plus everything in the universe. Jesus does not hold things we need to know, but tells we need to know. He lets us know God and a lot of stuff.    See Matthew 11:27

 3) Omnipresent means God is everywhere. He is everywhere. No-one can hide from Him.   See Jeremiah 23:24- In this connection, David says: ”God!  Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go to Heaven, you are there. If I go to earth, you are there.” See Psalm 139:7-8.

 The power of God is beyond imagination. Besides His unlimited power, He is also the source of love. In return, for His love however; He expects us to be transparent of love saying:” He, who does not love others, does not know me.”Thus, since God is love, let us love each other.   See 1^st John 4:7-8.  After this, focusing on agape love, we are going to scan through bout brotherly love- Philos. 

N.B.   Love, an emotional regard, reconciles people with God, unites people with people, regardless of their sex, religion, tradition, culture and nationality.

People, who love others, smile first. So, they maximize healing in their life. As a result of that, they become healthy, nice looking and sociable, and there is no struggle in that.  It takes fewer muscles to smile, while many muscles to frown.  

Without love, life is messed up.  With love, life changes for good. When one loves others, his problems are simplified.  The vanguard of this secret Jesus, the Son of God, has sealed the reality of this, crucified on the Cross.   

 According to Galatians 6:7, you reap what you saw. When Jesus crucified for the sinners, Al-Mighty God raising Him from death, gave Him all power and authority. With His power and authority, conquering the evil, transforming the Old Testament into the New Testament, He paved the road of salvation.   Jesus is not only our righteous, but also our hope.       

One might boast of his wealth and power, beauty of his wife and prosperity. All these things are good to a degree, but the love of God and the salvation of God excel all things.

When one loves God, he rejoices. When he rejoices, he expresses his love saying:” I love the Lord with all my flesh, soul and spirit. I sing songs in remembrance of what He did at Calvary, and continuous singing for the Lord.

Oh! Lord, Oh! Lord. X2

You hung on the Cross= 2 times

Oh! Lord of Calvary! X2

 O!  Lord! Your blood! X2

You’re Blood that you shed at Calvary-X2

 O!  Lord! Your blood! X2

   Crucified on the Cross,

Sacrificing your life, buried in Calvary,

Oh! Jesus, you come back to life.

Conquering both evil and death,

Coming out from the belly of the earth,

Walking in the streets of Jerusalem

Giving evidence that the Bible is worthy

Proving that you are Savior of the world

Confirming, you are Son of God.

 Saving souls of your disciples,

We celebrate Sunday, Easter Sunday

It is the day of resurrection

The day, Jesus began His mission of Salvation.

Then after walking in the city of Jerusalem,

Jesus rose up to heaven,

Sitting on the right hand of God,  

Now, He is mediating on our behalf,

Now, with His affection, wonderful affection

          He takes us home one by one.  See Romans 8:34.   

Nothing separates us from the love of Christ.  Trouble, suffering, and hard time, hunger, nakedness, danger or death cannot separate us from the love of Jesus? See Romans 8:35

We declare in our mouth, that Jesus is Lord.  We believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead.  We are saved, justified to be called righteous. So, let us profess in our mouth that Jesus is Lord.  See Roman 10:9-10.

Amen!

Molla Nigatu