OUR WALK WITH GOD,
WORD OF THE DAY: "FERVENTLY"
Scripture reference: I Peter 1:22
" Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth …unto
Webster's Dictionary says fervent means " having or showing great warmth
We are commanded to love one another earnestly, with GREAT warmth, and
According to Webster's Dictionary, earnestness implies having a purpose
" Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments and live." Proverbs 4:4
We can get to the place where we can love without faking it and without
Amplified Version, I Peter 2:1,2:
"So be done with every trace of wickedness (depravity, malignity) and all
Like newborn babies you should crave-thirst for, earnestly desire-the pure
Because impure love begins in our thoughts, as soon as we recognize impurity,
Let us be examples of pure, godly love, in word and deed, fervently, at all times,
"Fervent"
-c.Carol Kenreigh, July 16, 2001
unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently…."
Just a thought:
If you are looking for love in all the wrong places, then you will find
all the wrong kind of love.
Fervently = intently, earnestly, without ceasing.
or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc.; ardent…"
intensity, out of PURITY of heart, never allowing sin, contrary thoughts,
or incorrect motives to contaminate our love for one another.
and being steadily and soberly eager to pursue it. We are to take loving
each other with God's love seriously, doing it with stability and
intensity at all times, without allowing foreign mixture to mess up our
love walk toward our brothers and sisters in Christ. We purify ourselves
by obeying the truth!
hypocrisy. We are supposed to love without any trace, at all, of anything
evil. We love earnestly with purity. The following verse, in the context of
this same record, tells us how to do it.
deceit and insincerity (pretense, hypocrisy) and grudges (envy, jealousy) and
slander and evil speaking of every kind.
(unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto
[completed] salvation."
we need to lay it aside, be done with it, and replace it with thoughts which
are true, pure, honest, lovely, of good report, praiseworthy, and virtuous.
As a result, we will grow more mature in the Lord by the Word we think, say and do.
without ever letting our guard down and grow up into Christ Jesus the Lord. Amen.