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]]> By: Richard W. Wilson http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/2008/08/30/love-that-conquers-the-world/#comment-2939 Richard W. Wilson Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:23:33 +0000 http://trevinwax.wordpress.com/?p=1640#comment-2939 I loved this quote; but am barely learning to honor its implications with obedient response to Jesus and the Apostles teaching. The last line just leaves me wondering why it is we so often quote such things and so rarely take them to heart, why it is we so rarely put them into practice: And then there is love for the enemy – love for the one who does not love you, but mocks, threatens, and inflicts pain. The tortured’s love for the torturer. This is God’s love. It conquers the world. As we love to say: Make Me More Like Jesus. But most of us really mean, but not yet, not now that I've got my security, property, and privilege to protect, not while I'm in military service serving my Mammon serving country, not while I've got another religion (Islam now) to defeat. When will we begin to believe that the Gospel pattern of life that Jesus lived is meant for us too? For Him and you, Richard W. Wilson I loved this quote; but am barely learning to honor its implications with obedient response to Jesus and the Apostles teaching. The last line just leaves me wondering why it is we so often quote such things and so rarely take them to heart, why it is we so rarely put them into practice:

And then there is love for the enemy – love for the one who does not love you, but mocks, threatens, and inflicts pain. The tortured’s love for the torturer. This is God’s love. It conquers the world.

As we love to say: Make Me More Like Jesus. But most of us really mean, but not yet, not now that I’ve got my security, property, and privilege to protect, not while I’m in military service serving my Mammon serving country, not while I’ve got another religion (Islam now) to defeat. When will we begin to believe that the Gospel pattern of life that Jesus lived is meant for us too?
For Him and you, Richard W. Wilson

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