May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 NIV
Abounding Love
Inuit Oral Traditions were employed as the most important method of conveying and preserving ideas, augmented sometimes by small carvings that may have served as illustrations for events. Songs and dances also enhanced the meanings of Traditional Stories, which upheld the existing system, bolstered the cultural practices of Inuit society, and verbalized a sense of right and wrong. Inuit Traditional Stories are rarely simple, usually abounding with behavioural codes that may only be fully understood by those living within that society.
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I live near a fruit belt, and this time of the year, as the risk of frost has passed, the fruit growers are looking forward to an abundant crop – fruit heavy on the trees and bushes, some ready to be harvested, others developing and ripening nicely. That is a picture of what God wants for our lives. The apostle Paul writes about this in 1 Thessalonians 3:12: “May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.” God’s desire for us is that our love for others ought to be in abundance. In this translation, it speaks of overflow. As He pours His love into our lives, it ought then to be in such abundance that it flows out into the lives of others. The Lord has a heart for those who are suffering, or who have little. His call for us is to so fill us with His love that it pours out of us and into those He leads us to who need to experience His love, often in practical ways. Find someone today who can experience God’s abundant love through you.
These have been words from the heart.
Bob Beasley