I do understand you. It's love that is the issue.I don’t think you really understand where I’m coming from But no worries.
Jude 1:2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied Brother.
I was looking up Scriptures about Peace and I came across a few. I thought why doesn’t it just say love especially if peace comes from love in that last verse?
Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
2 Thessalonians 3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
I’m sorry, I just don’t see peace coming from pursuing love Brother. I see peace differently from love. I see both peace and love as different gifts from Jesus. I was at peace with a mountain lion that appeared suddenly right above me through Christ’s Righteousness that He had put in me yet I didn’t think about love at all yet I’m not doubting at all that love wasn’t with me.
I guess I look at God as love but love is not the Name of names. So I don’t say sickness leave me in Love, I say in Jesus then I’ll say why from Scripture, because Jesus is my Habitation so because I claim that sickness has to go.
We aren’t always going to see everything the same brother especially in this life or the bodies we have now.
*a person can't possibly know God without Love.I’m sorry, I just don’t see peace coming from pursuing love Brother
*And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. Colossians 3:12-14
(It does not say above all put on peace but love. Love leads to peace)
*And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
(Where is peace? Love brings peace)
*Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love. 1 Corinthians 16:13-14
(Again where's peace? It does not say do everything in peace but do everything through love because it leads to peace.)
*Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8
(Love covers so much!)
How is man's peace obtain? By treaty, by written or non written agreements that are enforced by written rules or laws? These are all temporary at best. The heart does not have to be pure in order to negotiate man's peace. All that is needed is the threat of force or fear. It does not need real trust, does not need love in order for the treaty to be written. Fear is the catalyst that opens the door to hate, war, and death. Man will write up elaborate pacts in attempt to negotiate a settlement through some regulatory measures. These are only outward manifestations like cleansing oneself in the courts of the temple.
However the new testament has done away with this because the laws are written in our minds and heart. LOVE is above all. Scripture says it. If you don't have love inside you, you can't have peace. No way, no how.
First comes faith. It opens the door to God's love. (This is a drastic difference from man's peace where fear is the catalyst.) It is truly impossible to please God without faith. You must have a level of faith to love. Second comes love. You must love in order to know God. This fact is also scriptural. Love is written in every action you take. Then love prepares the heart for His peace.
You cannot have peace without love (love opens the door to knowing God) and cannot have peace without faith (you cannot please God without faith). So the importance of faith and Love are indeed collaborated by scriptures.
Love is an order between God and you that resides inside your heart which in turn promotes His Peace.
Faith sets the conditions for Love to flourish, Love sets the conditions for peace to flourish. And His Peace leads to Life.
Please don't use my prayers to voice your opposition to my peaceful prayer request. All you need to do is pm me. We can do this privately.
Pm me.