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Love is not envious (ze-LOo-, original Greek, and is from the word (ZE-los) or zeal), which means; To be zealous, filled with zeal, zealously affected; to make a show of zeal, to profess affection in order to gain someone as a follower. Also, the word "not" refers to ever,... So, actually you would say that Love never is envious, nor boils over with jealousy, First, let me say that we are stiil talking about the kind of love that God wants us to have for Him and for everyone else in our lifetime.
We are still in I Cor 13 and that means that this envy and jealousy is not just referring to the love inside a marraige and or a dating relationship, but EVERY relationship. Now, If I really love you, I want good things to happen for you. When they do, it's like they have happened to me and I share your joy. Love, AGAPE LOVE, takes us out of ourselves and places us in the other person's shoes. Their needs become our needs. Their sorrows become our sorrows.
And their joys become our joys. In love there is no room for envy, because my joy at your good fortune is the same as my joy in my good fortune. But, you say, it's only natural to desire good things that other people have. Exactly, but agape love is not natural. It's supernatural. It doesn't come from us. It comes from God and travels through us. What we have to do is get our "natural" self out of the way and let the supernatural power of Gods love flow.
We talked about this in an earlier study as "dying to self"... "more of Him and less of me".
Galations 5:24-26 Explains what I mean.
24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus (the Messiah) have crucified the flesh (the godless human nature) with its passions and appetites and desires. 25 If we live by the [Holy] Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. [If by the Holy Spirit we have our life in God, let us go forward walking in line, our conduct controlled by the Spirit.]
26 Let us not become vainglorious and self-conceited, competitive and challenging and provoking and irritating to one another, envying and being jealous of one another.
I desire above all thing that we grow together in the knowledge of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Love is not envious.
I love you |
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| November 30, 2008 |
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| Excellent post! Thank you for the Word today. |
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| November 30, 2008 |
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| Thank you, Joyful Servant... I Like that name, by the way. It really is just like that too. Joyful.., ya know, in another blog I wrote about how God is only allowed to show only so much to you at a time, because, if He just appeared in front of us right now, well, of course we would believe in Him. Then, He would know that He made us to Believe. That's not Love at all. And so, I said all that, to say this... As we dig deeper into His TRUTH, searching to see more of Him... THEN, HE REVEALS MORE OF HIMSELF. That is where the Joy comes. And so "Joyful Servant" is quite befitting. I love you and thank you. |
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| November 30, 2008 |
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Excellent Word again. This is the 2nd time, I heard this word today..."As we dig deeper into His TRUTH, searching to see more of Him... THEN, HE REVEALS MORE OF HIMSELF" And, in my experience of life thus far, that is exactly what God is doing, revealing more of Himself to me over time and experiences...from babe....now onto maturity :-) God bless brother as you continue in the Word!. Agape love, sis Penny |
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| January 19, 2009 |
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| That is my prayer. To grow more & more in the Knowledge of Jesus Christ. |
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| June 04, 2009 |
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I too want to grow stronger with much Knowledge of HIM, and Joyful Servant is correct............ He will reveal more of HIMSELF as we continue to dig into HIS Word. He loves us and wants to hear from us all the time !!!
Within Christ Love........... I love you and appreciate what you are doing here |
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| June 04, 2009 |
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| Thank you Precious. Joyful Servant is just what her name implies,... hehe. I love you too. |
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