God is Love.
First and foremost--my apologies for not staying on schedule. I've recently started a new job as a Children's Ministry Director, and my weeks are crazy! So please forgive me... I will do better next week...and hopefully the following weeks, too! :)
We grow up with Cinderella stories of love...the knight in shining armor rescuing us from this life and promising something so much more....and all it takes is falling in love. But love is more than that feeling you get inside...LOVE IS A CHOICE. It is an attitude that is expressed in an act from a source...
Huh?
The love we have for people comes from somewhere--there is a source of that love. And that source---like a water source---pushes that love through our loves and we act on it toward others.
With God, love is not just a virtue for him...he doesn't need a source for his love...because Love Is God himself. When God loves, it is a reflection of his whole, entire being. WOW! It's not just a piece of the puzzle...it is all of him. Wrap your mind around THAT!
One of the really cool things about God is that he is not like the God of any other religion. He is a God of love, and the gods of other religions are selfish, angry gods who constantly need appeasing.
But God--His Love--seeks the highest good in your life. It impossible to love without giving. When we truly love someone by the God Source, we want to give of ourselves and our life to that person. As God did for us.... he gave his life.
And he continues to give... He can give of himself to all of us...and never be empty and never be divided in loyalties. He loves perfectly and continuously.
Who is the source for your love to others? Do you have a difficult time loving others because you have not truly received God's love in your life?
I love this illustration of God's Love. It's so true. We must embrace that God is love...he can only love. Anything evil in this world or your life can't come from God, because it would go against his very nature to do something to intentionally hurt you.
God will, however, allow things to happen in your life to bring you closer to him. And he will NOT interfere with free will and choice. But know that because God's love IS...that during those times, he's forever present and real...and loving you.
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I know my source of love is God. If this were not true, I would be an incredibly miserable person. That being said...
When I think of the mental struggle I experience about love, it's interesting what I come up with. When I look to others to give me love, I always come up lacking. It is not until I focus truly on how much God loves me that I can function in love towards others. I have often blamed my lack of love for others on the lack of feeling loved by others. What a deadly cycle.
I could easily view myself as unlovable because of the incredible rejection I have felt from my struggling husband. I could wallow in that lie and allow it to choke every breath of love from me. (I guess that would be like the clipping of the wings, the way I was kept from "flying" and feeling loved.) Praise God He is Love and will never let me go. I must know who I am in Christ and the promises He gives me. Then I can live knowing that I am loved and will always be loved by my Father no matter what I do.
There was a time in my life that I would say God is the source of my love. However, I would give stipulations on my love. If you do....then I will love you. That is SO NOT God! It is SO NOT his love. God was not the source of my love. I do find myself as I begin to search, understand, and embrace God's love that his love is unconditional. I didn't understand the TRUE meaning of that word until my husband got injured. There were times he certainly didn't request, want, or desire my love. However, unconditional, not matter his state physically or mentally, was what God was teaching me. When it didn't feel good to love him that's when I should show him the most love. Unconditional love is something I've learned to give because it's God's love through me. I don't love because the other person did something to deserve it. I love because it's what God created me for. I love because God in me loves.
Thanks Nancy and Gabbie for your insight...
God's love is unconditional
God's love changes us
God's love moves and flows
God's love is eternal
God's love is unconditional
And As God loves through us, our love is
unconditional
it changes us
it moves and flows
it is eternal
and it is unconditional.
miss you guys!
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