Grow Up in Love
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by Gloria Copeland
The key to developing your love walk is wonderfully simple. You do it by maintaining living contact with God—fellowshipping with Him in the Word and in prayer, staying in union and communion with Him, and letting His life flow through you.
Jesus Himself taught us the principle of sustained communion. He said:
Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me. I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing (John 15:4-5, The Amplified Bible).
First John 4:16-17 says it this way: “God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us…because as He is, so are we in this world” (The Amplified Bible).
The Apostle Paul prayed “that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ’s own perfection)” and that “Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him Who is the Head, [even] Christ…” (Ephesians 4:13, 15, The Amplified Bible). I’ve come to realize that love is the single most important key to growing up in God. In fact, if we don’t grow up in love…we won’t grow up at all.
Tags: Holy Spirit, Love, mercy, obedience, Prayer
