03-17-06

There is one more thing that I want to make clear before we start back "walking" through 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 verse by verse. I know that the Holy Spirit is going to give us more and more revelation about God's kind of love when we get into that, but I feel led to "clarify" some things before we do. When God revealed to me what I am about to share with you, it was "life-changing" for me, and set me free to keep the "love commandment" that Jesus gave us!

Okay....here's the deal ~~~~ Satan is a "ditch-digger"! If he can't get you in the first "ditch" he digs....then he digs one on the opposite side of the road and tries to get you in that one! For example....he digs the "proud and haughty ditch" so that he can get you to "thinking more highly of yourself than you ought to". If you don't go there, then he has the "low self-esteem and unworthy ditch" which is nothing less than the "PITS"! Don't go there! These are "ditches" that we can talk about later, I just used them as an example for the fact that the devil has "ditches" to keep up from obeying the "love commandment"! I have already talked about one of them, and that is the "ditch of deception" (he tells you that as long as you don't "hate" someone, then you are walking in love with them)....that is a lie! I encourage you to refer back to my earlier encouragements about that. Now! Look out for the "ditch" that is on the other side of the road ~~~~~ this is also a "ditch of deception" (he tells you that if you don't approve, accept and condone someone's "behavior", then you are not walking in love with them)...that is a lie! This "ditch" is the one that I am going to be talking about in my next encouragement....it is the one that I used to keep falling into, but Praise God....."the Truth has made me free"! Jesus said that if we would continue in His Word, then we would know the "truth" and the "truth" that we know will make us FREE! Somebody ought to be shouting "HALLELUIAH"!