{"id":7226,"date":"2017-12-20T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=7226"},"modified":"2017-12-20T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:23:01","slug":"seasonal-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/?p=7226","title":{"rendered":"SEASONAL CELEBRATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE:<\/strong> The kind of love that counts before God is not seasonal celebration of the birth of Jesus.<\/p>\n

1 John 4<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The kind of love that counts before God is the kind of love that qualifies man not to miss heaven. Is it the magnitude of seasonal celebration of the birth of Jesus that testifies man\u2019s love for God? To fear God is to love God, living by His word continually is the kind of love that counts before God but not seasonal celebration of the birth of Jesus. Claiming the love for God is obeying His commandments. Apostle Paul pointed out the purpose of God\u2019s commandment, \u201cNow the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk.\u201d (1Timothy 1:5-6)<\/em><\/strong> Apostle Paul was talking about love that counts before God, the kind of love that is worthy to provoke God\u2019s attention to acknowledge one for good.
\nLove of man under heaven is a love manufactured by man to attain self-interest not God centered love. Man\u2019s love is not the kind of love which counts before God. Under heaven, love manufactured by man is not a pure heart love which rampant and lack of good conscience love. Love manufactured by man is not rooted in faith. Imagine husband, wife, children, extended family, neighbors and all are running around shopping for gift in celebration of Jesus without existence of God\u2019s love among each other. Without God\u2019s love all are not living life for God\u2019s glory? The word of God stated, \u201cIf someone says, \u201cI love God,\u201d and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?\u201d (1John 4:20) <\/em><\/strong>Does that sound like you?
\nMan is a mess as agent of wickedness deceiving loving among self. God is true in His testimony about man under heaven as stated in Genesis 6:5-7, \u201cThen the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. \u00a0<\/sup>And the <\/em><\/strong>Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.\u00a0<\/sup>So the Lord said, \u201cI will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.\u201d There is no evil in celebrating the birth of Jesus. However, man is celebrating with lack of understanding and it relegates before God but not elevate man for the glory of God. Celebrating Jesus should be a non-stop as long there is breath of life. God cannot be deceived and that is the reason God why man should seek Him diligently. Seek God with understanding by loving Him without condition. It is written, \u201c1 John 4:8<\/em><\/strong>, \u201cHe who does not love does not know God, for God is Love.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0Celebrate Christ reality not celebrating religion.<\/p>\n

Prayer for today:<\/strong> Ask God for the grace of understanding and not become a victim of ignorant.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FAITH CAPSULE: The kind of love that counts before God is not seasonal celebration of the birth of Jesus. 1 John 4 The kind of love that counts before God is the kind of love that qualifies man not to miss heaven. Is it the magnitude of seasonal celebration of the birth of Jesus that … Continue reading SEASONAL CELEBRATION<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7227,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions\/7227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithprescription.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}