Love of Christ

"Why do you do this?" is the question, of many receiving help. They search your motivation, supposing it's out of guilt or pity, maybe your own; "look what I do" thinking.  "You're different" someone might say at the office, or car ride, even over  a cup of coffee.  Many similar questions or statements could be answered by;  "The love of Christ".

Christ's love is what transformed His followers lives into culture changers, moving throughout the entire world,   now entering our places and time, one by one, transforming hearts.  Godly love compelling them from their locations to remote parts of the world, with the Good News of Christ's love.  Persecution could not stop these initial disciples and followers.  In Acts 8: 4 "Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went."

The Apostle Paul, had been persecuting the Church. He met Christ, believed and received God's mercy. His  "heart"  being, transformed and empowered by the Spirit of God.  With the same zeal he had used for persecuting, Paul went through weather, sea, robbers, stoning, to speak about what God had done through Christ.

  Every first Saturday of the month, the  Church I attend  named  "The Bride" will again open it's doors to the community for free clothing and homemade laundry soap.  The Pastor and his wife  are intentional about building relationships and service.  They share with those,  information about; "why we do what we do."

 

When someone asks:  "What really makes you tick?" or "Why do you do this for me?"  even asks directly about Christ and God.   The believer can say something like Paul said in a Corinthian letter:

"For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.  And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him who died for them and was raised again.  So from now on we regard no one from a worldly view....Therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come!  All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation....."  2 Corinthians 5:14-21.

Let me encourage you to receive the love of Christ and realize peace with God through faith in Christ.  Then let us together live life compelled by that Love, for our circle of life, God has placed us in and beyond.