Life is God's gift to us, but what we do with that life is our gift back to God. One of the most expressive ways to show God our attitude of gratitude is to share the life of God's love with others.

We live in a world that is screaming for love in all the wrong places. As a society, we have lowered our standards to believe that it doesn't matter where the love comes from, as long as it packaged with a label called "love". Most often we find that what we call "love" is actually lust disguised. 

One can always use this example as a gauge to measure if something is love or lust: If it is true love it's always looking for an opportunity to give.  If it is lust it is always looking for an open door to take.

We have crossed the threshold of a new age, we must hold fast to the core values that have made us sober and secure. Jesus tells us that on these two hang the entire laws of the prophets according to Matthew 22:38-40:

"This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

As we walk out and share this love with others, we should exemplify the horizontal and vertical love of God. This model displays the insignia of the cross. Then we take up that cross daily (the love of God) and carry it to a lost and dying world that so desperately awaits it.

Today we are being faced with a challenge that we've never been faced with before. We are openly commanded to love a people who do not think or live like us. We must find a way to channel that passion and conviction into loving them with the same conviction that must be modeled beyond words only, it must become tangible.

John 13:34-35, Jesus explicitly declared,

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

The only way the world would ever believe that the Kingdom of God existed and that God had a sincere heart towards humanity was if those who had been in the presence would show the love of God towards each other.

The ministry of Dr. Patricia Bailey-Jones has created a tremendous impact for more than 25 years in over 100 countries around the world, bringing deliverance and salvation to countless thousands through Master's Touch Ministries, a mission outreach that has headquarters in North Carolina, Los Angeles, and London, England. For more information about Dr. Bailey Jones, log onto www.mtmintl.org *Dr. Bailey-Jones is a 2009 StreamingFaith.com Guest Columnist.

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