Love Strong

A loving heart feels no fear, was my message for this week! As I prepared to post it on the church sign, I started to think more deeply what it means to me; or maybe what it would mean to anyone who would believe. I realized that love and fear cannot reside in one heart. I remembered that, all the time I was afraid of something, or afraid of a person, my love had gone cold. For a loving heart can sense no fear; and if you are afraid of something, your love is not pure, or maybe you do not love at all. Love must be pure to be active. It must occupy every space in our heart and thought to have an impact, for a pure heart is a loving heart. Then, he that dwells in fear of any kind, in any form, of a thing or person, of the past, present or future, does not dwell in love; for fear is the absence of love.

Are you trapped in the fear of environment, terrorism, state of the country, economy, and immigration; the future of your children, and all that politics and the news media project? Are you making a reality of them? If so, your heart is not in the right place. Purify your heart and you will be at peace; then it will appear in your understanding that “Divine Love alone governs man” and that “the Lord God omnipotent reigneth” in this place, now, tomorrow, and forever more.

When your love is pure, only then can you protect yourself and everyone around you. In one of her hymns, Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “Love is our refuge; only with mine eye can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall: His habitation high is here, and nigh, His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.” For love alone is our one safe defense. Indulgence in fear endangers one’s liberty and security and everyone he or she cares about; making one vulnerable and exposed to that which he or she is afraid of. But revise this feeling, and find yourself secured in the love of God; knowing that you and your household are safe and secure in His presence. This sense of God, I believe, can only be attained by purifying one’s heart and thought. The Bible says, “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.” (I John 4:18)

So, I would like to invite you to join me, come on over to the side of love, let’s bring in the millennium. And remember, holiness is Christ, Love, and Truth, lived.