To build a house you need bricks or wood. What do you need for true love? Paul mentions three ingredients: a pure heart, a clear conscience and a sincere faith. Let's take a closer look at these.
The purpose of your assignment is The love that comes from a pure heart,
1 Tim. 1:5
A clear conscience and a sincere faith.
Ingredient 3: A sincere faith
The third building block Paul mentions is genuine faith. Literally: an unfeigned faith. This is a faith that is not hypocritical. Not pretense, but an honest and sincere faith. A sincere faith is not a show, not an outward show. As you speak on Sunday, so you live on Monday and throughout the week.
Love is strengthened by genuine faith, not fake faith. People drop out on fake faith. If your faith is not visible in how you treat others then it has no power. Real faith knows forgiveness, patience and faithfulness. Others don't look at what you say, but at how you live. This is also why Internet and online relationships have much less impact than real physical relationships. If another does not see how you live, your words have limited impact.
You don't have to be perfect, as long as you are real. You can be yourself with God the Father. How nice is that, that with the Father you can be yourself. This is how it should also be with us among ourselves. It is important that we can be ourselves. That we accept each other as we are. We cannot be perfect, but we can be sincere and honest.
And from there we continue to grow in love toward God and toward each other.
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