HAs your love grown cold?

Does it seem sometimes that your love has grown cold and you can’t explain why? The passion we once had no longer exists and it’s just a matter of going through the motions.  Lovers that first meet can’t be away from each other for a moment and yearn for the next opportunity to be together. Yet as they grow older the desire to be together is no longer the priority and indifference sets in.  “Mat 24:12 KJ2000 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall grow cold.” Here again we see the culprit of iniquity taking an unwanted place and causing love to grow cold in the heart of many. As this lawlessness grows love decrease. But if that is the case the reverse should be true also. As lawlessness or iniquity decrease then love should increase.  Another translation says, “Mat 24:12 EasyEnglish More and more people everywhere will be doing very bad things. Because of this many people will no longer love each other in the way that they did.” This translation points to the fact that as more people begin to do bad things, they will no longer love as they once did.

• For a moment can we examine our own lives to see where the fire of love begins to not burn with the intensity that was once a part of our lives?
  
• Can you recognize the times the pain or hurt was so intense you just wanted to numb the pain? We allowed the coldness to overtake the fire.
  
• When someone spoke words that caused you to stop cold in your tracks in your pursuit of love? Or maybe it was rejection or a thought in our insecurity that caused the fire to not burn brightly? 
  

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We are in a time where many iniquities have come to the forefront of our society and the chill and coldness of this sickness has caused us to surrender to the coldness it brings with it. As we head into this winter let me remind you to put on the coat we have previously discussed. That coat or outer garment that will keep you warm as to not allow you to grow cold. “Col 3:14 KJ2000 And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.” This bond of perfection that stops the coldness of iniquity in its tracks and allow the warmth of love to once again take the forefront. 

​ Today the challenge is to fight the iniquity or sin that would so easily take you off the path.  Put off the iniquity and coldness of the past and put on the bond of perfection which will bring us peace and restores love.  Have a fantastic day as the winter season is here don’t forget to winterize your hearts with perfection. That perfection beloved is the love of Christ and we must choose to put it on and put off iniquity. God bless my beloved.