One Small Seed Newsletter – Edition #250, February 2022
Greetings: To every spirit, soul, and mind of every person. Jesus used this expression when he told his followers that the two most important commandments were: Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all your spirit, soul, and mind; and he said, As I have loved you, love ye one another. (Love your neighbor as yourself).
In our world (that is the natural world) we live in an environment of opposites. Read Ecclesiastes 3:8: “A time to love and a time to hate, …” I gave this particular verse because it is the subject of One Small Seed this month. When I say love is the word that comes from God’s Dictionary and not the dictionaries that the world provides, I am speaking of the Bible. In the Bible the truth is revealed so that a common man can understand as well as an educated man. There is no respect of person with God, so understanding is given as freely as His love. Just because someone has means doesn’t mean they are qualified for some gifts and callings from God. God is just and chooses souls that meet his criteria, and then He qualifies them.
Just because God loves every soul doesn’t mean every soul loves him. When God created Adam and Eve, he looked upon everything and said, It is good and very good. When God says something is good, it has to be good. When God said it was good, he was looking at his perfect work, which was immature, ignorant, and innocent. But since God knew the future of man, which would be mature, educated, and awakened to the facts of life, He never gave such acclamation after that until Christ came on the scene, where he said, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
When God presented himself in the form of a man to the world, he gave to man all the faculties he needed to do a perfect job. But, since he gave man the right to speak for himself, and he knew that man would fail, he gave to mankind a perfect Savior for an example to gauge himself by. This was done because of the perfect love of God.
The perfect love of God is not gauged by mankind’s interpretations, nor by mankind’s opinions. It’s not gauged by the spirit of mankind, because the spirit is the weakest link in the chain of love. It’s not gauged by the mind, because the mind is the second weakest link and is capable of failure at any moment. Actually the soul is the link that should be the strongest, but because of the influence of the spirit and mind it too becomes a weak link.
Just because we say we love doesn’t mean it’s one hundred percent true. Notice this passage from St. Paul 6:16: Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness. St. Paul also gives us a definition of love in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 KJV “Love suffers long, is kind, envies not, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not it’s own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil, rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, and Love never fails.” The greatest love story ever told is in the Bible. God bless.
Your friend in Christ,
Rodney Roberts