Faith Working Through Love

I thought it might be good to explore what the phrase *faith working through love* means. How does faith work through love?

It begins with God's LOVE/AGAPE. It is summed up in this verse and thought.

Rom 5:20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

The concept that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more shows the Father's unconditional love for His creation. Forget the retort "should we sin so that grace may abound? God forbid" for a minute. The fact is this, to the one who is truly SEEKING the Lord, there is NO LIMIT to the Father's mercy and grace and this translates into AGAPE/love.

Now then, where does faith come in? Well, when one TRULY GRASPS the Father's unconditional love, this causes them to genuinely love the Father and Christ Jesus. In other words, when one apprehends by faith, trust and confidence, this causes a love for God to well up inside them producing Love for God. This love for God begins to constrain the individual to begin to do the works prepared before the foundation of the world. The Spirit has told me that as we busy ourselves with feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, giving shelter to the homeless and visiting the sick and prisoners, we will be too busy and tired to do so much sinning. :)

Again, using David as an example, David believed in the mercy of the Father and knew that God was a forgiving God. God then testified through the Prophet Samuel, "David is a man after my own heart."