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Emotional Love Vs. Spiritual Love

Human emotional love is more determined by motives than by actions.

For example: Jesus can love us through one another, sharing with us, comforting us and encouraging us with his pure and righteous selfless motivations.

And another person can love us with absolutely identical actions and words, even citing, quoting and trying to speak on behalf of Jesus. Yet have inner self-serving motivations. Where the motivations fail the emotions must take over.

By outward appearances they look identical. But the inward motivation in the latter is corrupt.

The love of Jesus cannot be copied and fit into a marketing campaign. The extent that it can is the extent that it has been corrupted by self-serving human emotional love. Which is its own reward, it’s not supported by the Lord, it’s foundation is weak and sinking.

Especially if it pretends to be the love of God, which seems to happen often in church settings.

Spiritual vs Emotional Love

There is spiritual love found through Jesus Christ. It’s him loving through us.

But there is also an emotional love.

The first is found in, through, and by Jesus Christ living within, its not offended at conflict, it loves truth and it soberly embraces reality.

The latter is emotional, it has ulterior and subversive motives of apprehending, controlling, and manipulating weaker people, in order to fit them into the stronger persons vision or will about love, fellowship and about Christian gatherings.

Top priority of any Christian who gathers with others is to be able to understand how people are loving them. Protect themselves from the non-spiritual types of V love. And then develop themselves, the ability to love others in a spiritual and not an emotional way.

Do Only What HE Does

I see preachers online asking for things that the Lord just is not doing himself and never has done. Asking him to bless their effort. They think if they say things like “in the mighty name of Jesus” that requires his blessing, perhaps they have their reward already. That phrase in scripture implies a Christian is already in the known will of the God. It’s not to be used as a spit stamp of approval.

Often with respect to so many Christian ministries Jesus is off to the side doing something completely different, he just continues gently and patiently “follow me”, “you are to cooperate with me.”

It’s like my 4 year old asking me to help him dig a hole in the yard with his pretend plastic shovel while I’m over cutting, splitting, and stacking wood.

“Help me son, you can’t see what I can see coming, what I am doing is important work.”

We must pray according to the will of the father.

Is the father holding mega conferences in mega churches and hosting online Christian music concerts?

Is the father he collecting millions of dollars in offerings to enrich himself?

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