Love is the Antidote for Sin...

Let all that you do be done with love.--1 Corinthians 16:14

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’  This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’  On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”--Matthew 22:37-40

God's love is the antidote for sin.  May I by Your Spirit, Father, owe no one anything but love.  He who loves another has fulfilled the law.  Your Word tells me that the commandments can be summed up in this saying, namely, 

"You shall love your neighbor as yourself."  

Love does no harm to a neighbor...love is the fulfillment of the law.  Loving others with Your love is what brings You glory and others good.  This is also what is best and good for me!  May Your love be the motivating force...may it be the reason and the power behind all that I do, think and say.   If your love is not what drives me and fills me, then no matter what I do it is vain, empty and profits me nothing.  

Your love obeys...Your love is humble....Your love is sacrificial and meets another at their point of need.  The Bible in John 13:1 tells me this:

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.  (emphasis mine)

John MacArthur says "He loved them to the end" means literally, He loved them to perfection...fervently...to the limits of love.  Oh Father, my love falls so very far short of the standards that you have not only laid out for me but also modeled for me!  This is how I want to love those you have placed in my life...to perfection!  Help me to love as You do.  Your love is NOT of me...Love is OF You.  We love, because You first loved us.  My love cannot love my enemies and do good to those who spitefully use me.  My love cannot love those who say all kinds of evil against me.  My love can only love me...my love is selfish and always seeks its own.  Your love is sacrificial...it is good and gracious to all!  You send rain on the evil and the good.  Your love was demonstrated toward me when I was still Your enemy.  When I was helpless, hopeless and against You, You died for me!  I cannot generate this kind of love on my own...it is a gift from You.  Your love sacrificed Your Son and made a way in the darkness for me.  Your love endured the cross and paid the price for my redemption.  

I surrender to You, Father and I invite Your Spirit to take control,  govern my heart and produce the fruits of righteousness to Your praise and glory!  Ministry apart from Your Spirit is empty, vain and meaningless.  Guard and clothe all my words, thoughts and actions with Your love.  Your goodness...Your active love toward me is what led me to repentance.  Help me to demonstrate that kind of love to those You place in my life.  

Let all I do be done in love!!