What is your New Year's wish in 2017? I want to evangelize other people as well as achieve perfect family evangelism with the Lord's heart who desires to save all peoples!
While spreading the gospel you may meet people who act unbecomingly or seek their own benefits. They might be arrogant, or they may sometimes become provoked, do evil, or rejoice in unrighteousness. If you want to evangelize those who do all such untruthful deeds against love, you need to bear all things in unchanging love.
While you are serving someone with love, you have thoughts: 'He is shameless! That's too much!'; or 'Shouldn't he yield a bit, at least once? I forgave him ten times!' If you have such thoughts, then your love is not the kind of love that bears all things. Only when you try to understand him in his shoes though he may have done something far beyond common sense, and furthermore, when you try to find something that you can help him with, can you say you have perfect love that bears all things towards him.
Some people feel inferior to others in a certain field. They might oversell themselves to conceal their shortcomings and lie about themselves. If you judge them by the standard of the truth, they are liars and not trustworthy. If you do, however, you may experience ill feelings around them and stay far away from them.
However, if you have love that bears all things, you can understand their hearts. Then, you can praise their strength from heart although it is just small and thereby encourage them. With such love, you won't fail to bear their lies in your righteousness. You won't hate them. You may be able to praise their good points, no matter how small and ordinary.
In fact, they wanted to be recognized by others all the time, but most of them were not and felt empty. So, when you praise them, their hearts are comforted. When they receive your heartfelt praise about their strength, they can have confidence and courage without qualms of conscience because your praise is for their real strong points. It makes them feel they don't have to lie or exaggerate. Then, they can open the door of their hearts to you who gave such grace.
This is how you can knock on the door of the hearts with love that bears all things, open their hearts, and lead them to the Light. But you should understand that you can cultivate perfect love that bears all things only when you have faith and hope in your heart first.
Receive Answers More Quickly By Hoping with Faith
If you have spiritual faith, you can have hope in all things. Because you believe that you will go to Heaven where there will no longer be any death, any mourning, or crying, or pain, you don't have to hope for things that decay on this earth. Rather you can hope for things that are everlasting and true with faith. And because you have hope for a truly blessed life in Heaven, you can bear all things on the earth.
Even when you meet with a problem to which there is no solution or want something impossible to achieve on the earth, if you rely on the Word of God, hope with faith and put it into practice with faith, you can have it come to be (Hebrews 11:1). Thus, if you have such hope while evangelizing others, you can receive the answer more quickly.
Suppose a wife wants to guide her husband to church. If she hopes to evangelize him with unchanging belief, she will give thanks to God and hope that he will sit with her in worship services. Then, she can give unchanging love to her husband although he hasn't been evangelized yet.
In this way, if you see all people in the world as those who you should evangelize, though they are now befriending with the world, you can consider them precious and serve them with love because they will soon become God's children.
Endure All Things Until Perfect Fruit Is Borne
Although you bear all things, believe all things, and hope all things with love for others, the fruit may not be borne for a while. Until you have the perfect fruit and reap it, you might experience sorrow and pains from betrayal of those to whom you gave love. If you do not lose heart and endure all things with unchanging love, however, you can eventually bear the fruit of love.
Though the flower falls off, its fruit is borne and it becomes ripe. But it has to endure rain, wind, and strong sunshine. Even though its fruit is borne, if the fruit cannot endure wind and other conditions, it will fall off and fail to become a perfect fruit.
In the same manner, to gain perfect fruit of love, we should endure all things that come to us. Only then can we gain things borne with love and hoped for with faith despite the reality of the circumstances.
If you plant the gospel in someone's heart, you should water it at times. Because faith comes from hearing (Romans 10:17), you should let him hear the Word of God, and the signs, wonders, and powerful works in season and out of season. You can bear good fruit if you hope with faith that those you are evangelizing will become God's precious children and give thanks to you for leading them to the gospel. If you endure until the end with true love even when trials come you will bear fruit.
God will be moved by your deeds and heart and open the hearts of those you are trying to evangelize. He will let them accept the gospel you preached and reach salvation.
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