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Joyce Meyer – Melted by Love

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Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].—1 Corinthians 13:8

The God-kind of love bears up under anything and everything that comes. It endures everything without weakening. It is determined not to give up on even the hardest case. The hard-core individual who persists in being mean can be eventually melted by love. It is hard to keep showing love to someone who never seems to appreciate it or even respond to it.

It is difficult to keep showing love to those individuals who take from us all we are willing to give but who never give anything back. But we are not responsible for how others act, only how we act. Our reward does not come from man but from God. Even when our good deeds seem to go unnoticed, God notices and promises to reward us openly for them: Your deeds of charity may be in secret; and your Father Who sees in secret will reward you openly (Matthew 6:4).

Love knows that if it refuses to quit, it will ultimately win the victory: And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint

(Galatians 6:9). Don’t fail to walk in love because love never fails!

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Charles Stanley – The Father’s Far-Reaching Grace

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Luke 15:17-24

Family-oriented movies frequently end by showing a warm reunion. We see loved ones with arms around each other in an expression of love and support.

The parable of the prodigal son paints a similar picture of our heavenly Father’s attitude towards us, His children. That well-known story illustrates the magnificence of grace. In Luke 15:20, the one who was sinned against is running out to eagerly welcome back the one who sinned. Be sure to notice how the one who was mistreated shows compassion to the one who was at fault.

And there is even more. The prodigal did not know that his full rights as a son would be restored. We as believers, however, know in advance what awaits us when we humbly return to our heavenly Father. Because of grace, we can count on acceptance no matter how long we have been absent from Him or how far we’ve wandered.

Grace guarantees that our the Lord will greet us with compassion and forgiveness, lovingly restoring us to full rights as His children. It is not our performance—in other words, not good deeds or even the right words of apology—that matters; it is our position in Christ. When God sees that we belong to His Son, He forgives us.

The parable of the prodigal son points us to the truth that because of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven even before we return. While this does not give us license to sin (Rom. 6:1-2), it does give us reason to celebrate. Our Father is waiting to welcome us home.