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Homes need to be repaired with perfect love

I recently spoke about hating someone. Today, I want to talk about loving someone. Do you love anybody in this world? If you don't, you need Jesus. He loved us to death before we first knew Him. John has much to say to us in this chapter about love.

1 John 4:17-19
Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us.

If we know the perfect love that comes from God, we will feel secure. We know that we will be taken care of. The problem in today's circumstances are that many, if not most, are growing up or have grown up in homes where they do not get the God ordained parental love and care. There is much fear and this can only be dealt with God's perfect love.

The psychological trauma of growing up in a loveless home, or a home with poor love, can cause many ailments in a person. A child that grows not having proper attention, approval and affection will seek it themselves through improper means. This includes mild cases of being naughty, through to having abnormal relationships and other things that they know is wrong.  Repair the home with Jesus and you will take care of future generations. 

Let me finish this passage from the same chapter.  This situation has grown in intensity over the years and it breaks my heart that people have poor ideas of God and are trying to repair homes (bless their hearts) with poor ideas that are ungodly.

1 John 4:1-3
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

The spirit of the Antichrist is giving ideas that is making bad situations in families worse.  The sad truth is that we are believing these lies even in Christian homes because we are believing the wrong spirits.  That is what John is warning us about.

Father, help me to see how we can help parents break from this imperfect love pattern.

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