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The Chain Of Love

Love is as a chain, it consists of many links, each joined to one another, and each link in itself forms a ring or circle that is solid and never ending. So is the chain of love that fills our lives, it is solid and each link in it is never ending and permanently joined.

The chain of love

The first link in the chain of love is the anchor link. The anchor link is contained in John3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." This is the start of the chain. The chain is anchored by God Himself who then forms the link with Jesus who is the second link in the chain. John15:10 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Fathers commandments and abide in His Love."

The first two links of the chain of love are set as being the Father and then Jesus. The third link in the chain is you. Are you linked into the chain of love in Jesus. Matthew 22:37 "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,with all your soul, with all your mind." This is the greatest of all the commandments and almost all who have accepted Jesus into their lives obey this the greatest commandment, and have formed this crucial link in the chain.

We now have three links in the chain of love, God - Jesus - You. The second greatest commandment is revealed in Matthew 22:39 "And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself." This is the point where many a chain starts to fall apart, because you may be a weak link in the chain of love. Do you love your neighbour as yourself. Are you carrying that gift of love, that flows through the chain from the Father, and allowing that love to spread out further below you, that others may also experience the love of God, or do you consider yourself to be the last link in the chain of love, where all the love gets stored and goes no further.

John 15:17 "These things I command you that you love one another." Only in your carrying the love to others and forming more links in the chain of love, can the chain grow. At this very moment, you are forming the last link in the chain of love, and unless you reach out and link again to a lost soul, that chain of love can never grow. Reach out to your neighbour, which is not necessary your physical neighbour, but is someone that is around you, and invite them to join into the chain of love.

The chain is strong, it is secure, it is always growing, and will never lose it's strength. The chain is indestructable and each link in the chain relies on the other links around it for it's total strength. Each link in the chain feels when pressure is exerted to even one of the smallest links in the chain,and so it is in the chain of love. When stress and strain is placed on you in the tug-of-war of  life, then all the links in the chain stand together and fight against the stress and strain, and with the Father as the anchor, and Jesus linked to Him, who can ever win against such a force.

If you are not in the chain of love, then get linked in now, and if you are already linked in, then seek to increase the length of the chain of love, by linking to your neighbour.