“Love through me, Love of God.
Make me like Thy clear air
Through which unhindered, colors pass
As though it were not there.

Powers of the love of Good,
Depths of the heart Divine,
O Love that faileth not, break forth,
And flood this world of Thine” (Amy Carmichael).

I read one time that it’s amazing what you can do when you don’t care who gets the credit. Imagine what the people of God could do if they got out of the way and let God get in the way? Just think how we could revolutionize the world if we were willing vessels through which God’s love could reach the world?

On my own, my love is weak and selfish. I can barely love myself, much less other people. But when I accept and receive God’s love for me, when it moves from head knowledge to heart reality, then I become a conduit through which others can witness true unconditional love that is able to redeem and transform anybody anywhere at any time.

“God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love.

We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first” (1 John 4:17-19, The Message).