Live in Love       

1 John 4:7-8

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another,

for love comes from God.  Anyone who loves is

born of God and knows God.  But anyone who

does not love does not know God—for God is Love.  (NLT)

     Our Creator endowed us with the ability to love—one of the many godly likenesses that our God created us with.   God's love is something we should never take for granted and something we should aspire to model our lives after.  Because the Lord God loves us so much, He became a man with flesh and blood so He could be that final sacrificial Lamb that saved us from our self-induced eternal destruction.  Being plagued with sin, most people tend to selfishly search for the kind of love that makes us feel good, rather than seeking out those who are unlovable and in desperate need of our love.  We want to fall in love with that someone who will satisfy our need to be loved, but we usually look in all the wrong places and the love that we normally find is not the kind of love that draws us close to God.  The Truth is, my friend, until you personally know God and experience His love you will never understand what it is to truly love or be loved.  When God created man, He created us to love and glorify Him above all else, but instead, we fell into a sinful state of self-gratifying love. 

     We live in this fallen world believing that this life is all about ourselves; what makes me feel good and what edifies me in the eyes of others.  When we fall for this lie and refuse to learn how to love as God first loved us, we will never experience the richness of life.  We cannot learn to love from the world, because we are selfish by nature, self-centered by osmosis, and we tend to push to the front of the line. Love is humility, following the Lord Jesus, and personal sacrifice.  I believe that happiness is best found when we are actively living and loving like Jesus.  We owe the Lord much for saving us from eternal destruction, but all He asks for in return is that we live in love—for God and others.  Because love is why the Lord created us!

                                                                

                                          A Whisper of Hope

Love Me, my child…and love those whom I love.  For when you love others as I have loved you, you will truly know what it means to live.  From My holy view of the world from the glory of Heaven, most  humans are certainly not very lovable, but I have chosen to love My creation because I am Love!

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

For love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful

or proud or rude.  Love does not demand its own way. Love

is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been

wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices when-

ever the truth wins out.  Love never gives up, never loses faith,

is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.  (NLT)

                                                                         

                     We love Him because He loved us first.

                                      (1 John 4:19)