Do you know Love?
Love is supposed to be the most amazing feeling we will ever experience. Love is supposed to fix all wrongs and cover all sins and be the ultimate goal of our lives. I don't know what you've experienced in this life, but I've come to know with certainty that, that kind of love isn't very common! No, if that is love than our world doesn't know of love!
1 Corinthians 13:1-8a says; Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
So if we don't know this kind of love, what do we know? Maybe we assume to know love? Have you ever had a fight with a person you loved only to find out that the whole fight stemmed from an incorrect assumption?
We study to know these hard equations and theories, we spend years and years perfecting a skill or trade to try to have some security or certainty in this risky world we live in. But, do we know the reason for life? Do we, in all our striving for successes and picture perfect lives, ever stop to consider our foundation? What are you grounded in? What is the ultimate end of all your striving?
Love has been perfected among us in this:
that we may have boldness in the day of judgment;
because as He is, so are we in this world.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear,
because fear involves torment.
But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
We love Him because He first loved us.
This bit of scripture is referred to as the "Consummation of Love."
~Consummation defined; 1 the act of consummating <the consummation of a contract by mutual signature>; specifically : the consummating of a marriage. 2 the ultimate end : finish.~
Have you ever seen evidence of a perfect love? Perhaps not? Well be of good cheer because there is such a love!
Look at that scripture again....Love has been perfected among us, love is here! He is here, Emmanuel! Christ came and dwelt among His creation and died in order to save us from our sins. If we would only believe, have faith, that He loves us enough to save us from ourselves and from the chains and bondage of sin. We are forgiven the moment we ask of Him and He makes us new. Then Christ Himself takes up residence in our hearts and it is no longer we who live but Christ who lives in us! And love, real love is revealed to us in Him. Love like you've never known, you could never know otherwise! God loves me that much! He loves you that much! He loves them that much!
There is no way to tell you in mere words of His love! You can't sing about it enough and you can't meditate on it enough! You can't stop His love for you!
Do you believe in His love for you? If there is any sign of doubt in your mind then fear is blocking your path to His love. Fear is the opposite of faith. Fear doesn't believe and fear leaves you hopeless. Maybe you're like I was and you think, "the act of faith takes such courage, only the bravest of souls could have faith in an invisible God's love!" I say to you now, Even the tiniest faith is enough!
Give up your fear, trade it in for faith. Don't let fear torment you a second longer! You are loved more than you know, more than you deserve!
Mark 9:23-24; Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
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