Ever-Increasing Love

 

“We ought always to thank God for you…”

—2 Thessalonians 1:3a

Can you imagine the mess we would be in if God’s love was fickle? One moment God would love us. The next moment He wouldn’t love us. As believers, we would be in a constant state of confusion. We would never know where we stood with regard to God’s love for us.

But, God’s love isn’t fickle. His love is constant and never-changing. Because God’s love is constant, our love for our brothers and sisters in Christ should not only be constant, but ever-increasing. The Apostle Paul confirms this fact in 2 Thessalonians 1:3:

We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.

As our faith in God grows—as the Holy Spirit builds an ever-stronger spiritual foundation within our hearts and minds—a natural outcome will be ever-increasing love for our fellow believers. Therefore, this new day, let us ask God to enable us to love our brothers and sisters in Christ with an ever-increasing love. By the power of the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, God will truly answer this prayer.

 

Based on a blog originally posted on Monday, January 11, 2016

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