Manage episode 515085551 series 3222307
Today, the American temperament is Impatient, irrational, irreverent, insolent, inconsiderate, ignorant and inconsistent. We are at a crossroads in America. God mandates us to deal with all people using His problem-solving devices of personal love for God and impersonal love for all mankind. “Let us love one another for love is from God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God” (1 John 4:7). We are to use a relaxed mental attitude with all people and re-present Christ. “Do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with any partiality” (James 2:1-4). Impersonal love is loving others based on your character, not theirs. When you are treated unfairly by others you must have the spiritual strength to put it in the Lord’s hands using virtue love. Impersonal love accepts and tolerates people as they are, not as you want them to be. God didn’t send us to straighten people out. Motivational virtue comes from your love for God. Functional virtue is using impersonal love for others. God’s given us His policies, problem-solving devices, instructions, principles, and doctrines all in written form in the Scripture so we should have no doubt about what to do. “I am looking for people that know Me and understand Me” (Jeremiah 9:24).
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