There are two lines to this NACT training – “Love Prevails”, and “Holding to Truth in Love”. In the Bible, we can see that both truth and love are very closely related.
Eph. 4:15 speaks of “holding to truth in love”, 1 Cor. 13:6 says that “(love) rejoices with the truth”, and 2 Thes. 2:10 says “receive the love of the truth”.
On this line of truth, we see that truth is just a person – Christ. The Lord Jesus in John 14:6 tells us that He is the reality. Hence, to hold to the truth in love is to hold to this one who is truth in love.
The Bible is a romance, a love letter, written from God to man. And we need to spend time in this letter, and grasp the opportunity to love the Lord and His appearing while it is still today.
Satan, however, is the father of lies, and he stands in opposition to the truth. We can see that the lie is being pervaded in society today. Even among us believers, we are being bombarded with the flaming darts of the enemy’s lies every day.
“That sin you just committed, that was too much, God cannot forgive you now.”
“Do the saints really love you? Does God really love you?”
These thoughts are being surreptitiously introduced into our minds such that we cannot even discern if they are really ours or not. However, the truth prevails.
And the truth, the reality, as revealed in the Scriptures is that God is love (1 John 4:16), and God commends His own love to us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Rom 5:8), and when we confess our sins, He is faithful to forgive them (1 John 1:9).
The truth is the truth, and its standard does not change based on how we feel.
Hence, we can declare these facts with boldness, to the Lord, to one another, and to Satan, that God is, God loves us, and we love Him and love one another because of this fact.
In fact, to say that God does not love us would be to deny His very existence and being, because God is love.
Even if we don’t feel like we love the Lord, the truth is that the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5). Based on this, it is never a lie, and it is never too much to tell the Lord Jesus that we love Him.
Furthermore, in Mark 12:30 the Lord tells us that “you shall love the Lord with all your heart…” The word “shall”, is a verb expressing the future tense. The word there is not “should”, but “shall”.
This means that even if we don’t think we love the Lord, one day we shall love Him with our whole being. What a promise by the Lord!
But this love does not just stop with us. The love of God is a universal love that loves all men.
1 Thes. 1:5 “For our gospel did not come to you in word only…even as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.”
What we are is more important than what we can do or say. Therefore, as we continue to partake of the divine nature as mentioned in 2 Peter, the issue of this partaking is that this universal love is produced in us as well.
As a result, it does not matter if our words are received or rejected, but those we contact are touched by God as the divine love living through us, and we become like the New Jerusalem, which has great and high walls, but it also has gates on every side to allow all the nations to come in.
May the Lord work this out in us, so that we can be like the gates of the New Jerusalem for others to enter in through us!
