Matthew 18:19-20
Love Takes Two or More
19 “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
Romans 6:23
Sin to Death
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Where two or more are gathered who believe in Jesus, there is love -and He is with them...A family who gathers in Jesus' name is love...The more two people or a family love each other, they are willing to listen to each others pains and sufferings...The loved ones participate in each other's griefs...So as they age and experience life they see suffering and death, because the wages of sin are death...But love is willing and wanting to listen and to help and participate with the ones who need to talk about their sufferings...And in this participation their love grows...
English Puritan Church Leader Richard Baxter said, “The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other’s griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.”...
Over a lifetime of love and loving, there comes a time when there is grief and suffering in love...