Laodicean Love

The Faithful Witness, offering me the blessings of Heaven and Himself, desires to make me a source of His love and a representative of the Heavenly Kingdom. Once in a conversation with a Samaritan woman, He expressed this idea thus: John 4:14, "But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

Receiving to give — this is the principle of all God's blessings. Although the Message to Laodicea is addressed to each of us personally, and its purpose is to convince me and work with my soul, everything offered is given not only for my personal revival and transformation but for serving my neighbors.

To have something to give, I must first receive it. And if I need to give continually, day after day, it is important to find a source of God's blessings that will always fill me to overflowing. I can invent it myself and ask God to bless my speculations and somehow give me power from above through this. But here lies the danger that the wrong spirit might fulfill my needs.

However, I can study God's plan and understand how the Lord works and what offers He has for me, and then step onto the path of fulfilling God's will in my life.

By offering me gold refined by fire, the Faithful Witness desires to endow me with faith and love of a Heavenly standard. By purchasing these priceless blessings of Heaven, I become the owner of a great and inaccessible Divine gift of agape love, which is intended for transmission to my neighbors. Just as the sun cannot shine for itself, love is not given to me for myself. It is a verb originally designed to enrich other people. God is love, but if this love does not touch me and is not poured out into the lives of neighbors, it cannot be called love. So in my case, if I buy love but do not share it with anyone, there will be no benefit from such acquisitions.

Fortunately, we are surrounded by a huge world filled with living people to whom I can give everything the True Witness sends me. The society in which I live offers me to live according to the flesh and not think about God's plan of victory over this world. The enemy of the soul is satisfied with my use of my personal potential of faith and love, which is enough to reach the first difficulty or the first crossroads of opinions, to then find an excuse for my powerlessness and weakness, telling others that I am an ordinary sinner.

The word "Love" is used in this world even to describe what it is not. Corrupted people call various abominations by this word, trying to reduce God's design to base passions. But it is through love for the world that God desires to reveal the beauty of His character and be glorified on earth. And for this, He has chosen me and you, friend, calling us to love one another.

By our nature, we cannot have unconditional love on a permanent basis, and the Lord does not expect cacti to bear good fruit. But God has a plan that He outlined in addressing people of the Laodicean period, in which He pours out His most cherished desire about us, offering Himself in the form of symbols. God decided to call Himself Agape Love and in this love become part of a human, part of me. But for this, He needs me, needs my responsive heart, understanding by my mind, and the consent of my will. And by such barriers, the Almighty Lord has limited His presence in me. And until I show my faith and open my heart, until I begin to ask Him to live in me, He will not burst into my life and change it.

By offering me to make purchases, the Lord teaches me that all this should serve the good of my neighbors, my church, and those who, like me, have entered into trading relationships with Him.

Acquiring God's love, I cannot help but share it. Although at the beginning of this path, much does not work out for me, I often fall and make mistakes, but the Lord teaches me and guides me to all truth, sending me those through whom I will be established in love, develop in its depth, and constantly need it from above.

We who have entered Heavenly trade are called to consciously love one another and in this love give God power to act through us.

In our love for one another, we learn the rules of Eternal life, giving and developing the most tender and beautiful feelings of our soul, working out clear principles of life position, having an understanding of our constant dependence on God.

The Lord leads me to the boundless cosmic ocean of His Agape, which I must pass through myself, and by faith, I comprehend the magnitude of God's plan for God's church of the last time.

Loving each other mutually, my friend and I learn many good things in our relationships that fit into our thoughts and feelings and form our character. Knowing how love works among us, we very successfully share this knowledge with other people, becoming even more established in agape.

Whether we love each other or not can be easily determined by the presence of the Holy Spirit's fruit in our relationships. This is impossible to fake. It either exists or it does not.

The Laodicean Message calls us to become victors in faith and love, in righteousness and wisdom. And this is fulfilled only in the lives of those who say "Yes" and take a step of faith, wanting to immerse themselves in the meaning of trading relationships with Christ.

All of God's goods are united in their totality and cannot be acquired separately from each other. Obtaining love and carrying it into the world, I am also endowed with Christ's righteousness. I receive Heavenly wisdom in applying these gifts. How else could it be?

The invisible God manifests Himself in my visible love for a friend, for a neighbor, for an enemy. And this is not mine. I receive it from Christ in exchange for all of myself, my best time, and my sins.

God acts in the gift of my love for a friend and reveals to me the secret of Eternal relationships extending into Eternal life. Having such knowledge and experience, I can subject any of my thoughts to obedience to Christ.

Love, by God's design, is the weapon of the victor in the final battle between good and evil. If I do not understand the essence of the final war between Christ and Satan, I will not be able to wage battle and defeat anything. God will not give me what I do not plan to have if I do not see the meaning in acquiring what is offered. But precisely the presence of God's agape love in me and my unity with Christ will be the determining factor of my victory. The Lord invented this Himself and outlined His plan in the message to the church of the last days.

To believe God and entrust Him with one's life, accepting what He advises buying from Him, requires faith that comes from hearing, which comes from God's Word. How much longer will God speak to His people? How much longer will His people pay no attention to the most important and terrible warning? How long will we, like foolish virgins, sit and observe Christ's actions, doing anything except following His counsels?

Love wants to become known to the whole world through us. And if the world does not accept us, it will at least see that we love one another and are disciples of the One who is Love. Do you believe this?

Reflection Questions for this Chapter

1. Please read Galatians 5:6,22-23; Revelation 3:18; Isaiah 55:1-3; Proverbs 23:23; John 4:10-14; 13:34-35; Philippians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:22; Romans 10:17; 1 John 4:7-8,12-13 in light of this chapter.

2. What did you understand from this chapter?

3. What other Bible verses came to your mind?

4. What is agape?

5. Do you understand what role love will play in the last time?

6. Why did God decide to endow His chosen ones with such goods with strange names?

7. What does love do to my character?

8. Will the Lord place His seal on a loving heart?

9. Are you interested in studying this small message for so long?

10. What will happen to those who reject God's plans and promote their own ideas as God's?

11. How long will the Faithful Witness's Message continue to sound?

12. What will happen to those who buy nothing according to Christ's counsel?

13. What should I do if I ask to be sold what is offered, but nothing happens in my life?

14. What does the symbol of gold refined by fire mean? Where did you get your answer?

15. Does the Lord help with understanding those who have a living interest in His message?