PERFECT LOVE

One evening, as I was doing my every night self-check, I felt really scared. Suddenly I got scared about a lot of things concerning my service. As I work full-time in the ministry, I realized that there are a lot of things that I should be cautious about. I was scared I might...

• get proud because of the growth of the youth ministry in my church family.
• be stealing from God the glory He alone deserves.
• be lacking in the skills that I need to have as a leader.
• be competing already and not connecting anymore with people.
• not be handling the youth the way I should be handling them or the way they should be loved.

Those fears that inflicted me that evening prompted me to seek God with all my heart. It moved me to the place where God wanted me to be - in His presence. I was led to simply entrust everything to Him and in exchange, receive His perfect love. I learned that perfect Love casts out fear.

In the book, 1st John, chapter 4 verse 18, God is telling us, "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love."

The Word of God just nailed it. It drove the fears away. I came to realize that as I continue receiving love from my Father in heaven, I would stay also in love with the youth I am discipling for them to be Christ-like. If there is someone who knows how the youth should be taken cared of, it will be the One who created them. Right? The same Person would perfect the love I give to the people I am called to serve. At the foot of the cross, my heart would be filled with that love and everyday I'm gonna go back there for me to have some perfect love to share.

I gotta have more of that PERFECT LOVE from Jesus, our perfect Lover.