Universal Love

Be our divine, prevailing love.

You love all men,
All Your children,
Even our enemies.
Lord, Your love will
Keep enduring
For all eternity.
Pour out Your love so prevailing,
All-inclusive love, unfailing.
Build us up together
In Your eternal love.

Our human love is limited, we love only those whom our heart delights. However, when we received the life of the Lord, we received an organ of loved. This spirit of love is capable of loving all kinds of people.

In addition to brotherly love, we also need love toward all men. In 2 Peter there is a progression from the divine nature to brotherly love and eventually to the divine love, a love that is toward all men (1:4-7). The New Testament tells us that we have to love our enemies (Matt. 5:44-46). We should not hate any of our opposers or critics.

According to Acts 9:1-6, Paul was saved without any human involvement. He was saved through the Lord’s direct preaching. This little hint indicates that the disciples probably did not like Saul. Perhaps they said, “Saul is a hopeless case. ” This attitude can also be applied in today’s situation. Many times we think that a certain person is hopeless. This is especially true of those who oppose us. According to the Lord’s word, however, this attitude is wrong. The Lord said, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. ’ But I say to you, Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you” (Matt. 5:43-44). This is a good verse for us to have in dealing with all the opposers.

The young people on the campuses should not be troubled by persecutors. Years ago I was very troubled by all the persecution. Sometimes I was so troubled that I even doubted whether our work was really of the Lord. Then the Lord showed me in the Gospels that He was always persecuted (Matt. 10:16-18). Many times there were more persecutors than followers. In Acts the persecutors followed Paul wherever he went (9:22-24; 14:1-2, 19). When I saw this, I was strengthened, confirmed, and comforted.

When I was in northern China, someone from my hometown opposed me. I even studied with him at the same college. When I moved from mainland China to the island of Taiwan in 1949, he purposely followed me. He told people that his purpose in coming to Taiwan was to stop my work. When he later found out that I was going to Singapore, he went ahead of me to spread rumors. Even in the United States, persecutors have followed us. Despite their activities, we should not fight them but love them. (Preaching the Gospel on the College Campuses, CWWL, 1977, vol. 3)

Praise the Lord! The love of God is the God Himself, for God is love. It is divine, pure, boundless, unlimited and exhaustless.

Lord, let your love shine through us! Bring us deeper into our enjoyment and experience of the love of God the Father so that we may know Him as the source and the origin.

We need a universal love. Oh Lord Jesus we love you ❤️

We need a universal love!

Our human love is not enough, Lord we need You as our love! Thank You for Your pure, boundless , unlimited, exhaustless, prevailing, enduring, unfailing, all-inclusive love!

amen

Lord, we open!

Fill our hearts with Your love for all mankind.

We need a universal love, Lord.