so, my lifes been pretty crazy these past couple of months. God’s really been moving in my life in miraculous ways and I’m just excited for whats to come.
Lately, what i’ve been learning from God, is his real love.
Love, what is that? That word is so loosely tossed around that its ridiculous, but there is so much more to it. It is such a powerful word, and even people who try and grasp it, cant unless they’ve truly been baptized in the love of Jesus. You see, there is no true love outside of Jesus, outside of God. It just doesnt exist, because God is love. There cant be real love without there being God. Now dont get me wrong, theres love according to the world, but that love is twisted and misused. Love according to the world is not unconditional, and its rarely trustworthy. The worlds standards are this, i can tell you i love you, but still cheat on you. I can tell you i love you, and betray you, backstab you, and be bitter against you. That’s twisted, because the bible defines love as:
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Just that verse, rocks everybodys world, and it completely goes against what most people think love is. You see, love keeps no record of wrongs, so if you have someone that you “love” then maybe you should stop reminding them of the wrong thing they did years ago, and forgive, because the bible also says that if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father(God) will not forgive you.
But that all has to do with us loving one another. Did you know that us christians are called to love our neighbors and PRAY for those who persecute us. Not hate them, pray for them, have love for them. Again, the bible goes into this in 1 John:
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God livesin us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:7-12
That verse is so mindblowing. You see, if we do not love one another, and if we do not show love, then we are not of God. And there, love is defined for us. Unlike 1 Corinthians, which goes into our love for one another, this defines the truest love, that God loved us SO MUCH that he sent his only son. That’s powerful, and we see it again in Romans:
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
Did you catch that??? GOD demonstrates HIS OWN LOVE for us, by sending Jesus. That is just so amazing. God is love, Jesus is love. Love begins and ends at Jesus Christ. He is the author and perfector of our faith, and nothing has been made but through him. In Jesus is life, and that life is the light of all men.
I dont know about you, but that love is so much more amazing then what the world calls love. I’d pick the true love of Jesus anyday over the illusion of love the world gives off.
I challenge you. Now you know that Jesus is love. Ask him to reveal it to you. Seek an intimate relationship with the creator of the heavens and the earth. Ask Jesus to show you his love, and ask him to show you just how real he is to you. You’ll be amazed.
God bless you guys, I love you all.
-♥ Lucas