Do you know what it means to be truly Loved?
“This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.” 1 John 4:10 NLT. Pure and Complete Love comes from God, and he teaches us that, “But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” 1 John 4:8 NLT. When you examine the relationships in your life can you easily identify if they’re from God? When people examine how you treat them, will they feel the presence of God from your words or actions? More importantly, is the love that you say you have for God purely reflected in your heart posture toward him? “If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?” 1 John 4:20 NLT.
God set the expectations of what love is, how we should give it, and what it means to receive it. He wants us to experience love in the ways that he intended. God says that, “Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NLT. Many of us have experienced the opposite of his example but that doesn’t negate the fact that the truth still remains. “LOVE” didn’t hurt you or disappoint you. Human nature and the spirit they operated in, that wasn’t of God, did. These things hurt you: Impatience, Lust, Trauma, Jealousy, Unfaithfulness, Anger, Mistrust, Lack of Self-Control, and so many other characteristics of sinful nature when the flesh is leading. The truth of this is found in Galatians, where Paul says, “When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:19-21 NLT. We’re reminded, “For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.” Galatians 5:13-15 NLT.
Despite those ungodly experiences, Gods love is still active and present in your life. The Apostle Paul wrote, “And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.” Romans 8:38 NLT. Most importantly, before we can love others we need to first Love God, be perfected in his love and taught how to fulfill the law of his commands. “Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”Matthew 22:37-40 NLT. By accepting the Love that God made available to us through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we can be grounded in his purpose. Loving God enables us to love like him, even when we find ourselves in situations or circumstances where love isn’t present or reciprocated. When we love God first, he can transform our hearts by instilling in us the fruit of his spirit. Love is most fruitful (productive) and in abundance when it reflects his Holy Spirit. “But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!” Galatians 5:22-23 NLT. The Song of Solomon highlighted that “As human life finds its highest fulfillment in the love of man and woman, so spiritual life finds its highest fulfillment in the love of God for his people and Christ for His church.”
This reminder is a necessity because it’s obvious that the enemy wants you to believe that God doesn’t love you, that you’ve been separated from his love or that you’re unworthy altogether. However, when you awaken love before its time the consequences can be too great to afford, especially if you’re already bankrupt from what love wasn’t. God is love and the love that God desires for you to experience comes from him directly. Love starts with God. Love belongs to God. Love is one the of the greatest gifts that God gave to us. “Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:12-13 NLT.
Today, I want you to accept the truth that your love, you’re lovable and that you’re loved by God.
Why?
God will never stop loving you despite what people think, say or do. You’re his greatest love story and you always will be. “Long ago the Lord said to Israel: “I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.” Jeremiah 31:3 NLT. Gods “Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.” 1 Corinthians 13:7 NLT.
Let God love you, teach you his ways and show you how to obey him. Only then, will you fully understand and recognize what love is, how to honor it, and be a good steward over it. This is necessary for God, yourself and those that are assigned to experience love from you and receive it through you.
I pray that you seek God for the love that you need and not man. I ask God to heal every broken place and every place that you’re trying to fill from void. May God show you that you’re already complete because his love is perfect and made whole through Christ Jesus. Let today be the day you surrender all the broken pieces that you’ve been holding in your hands as you’ve tried to make sense of all that love wasn’t. I ask God to heal you and give you his peace while in your season of waiting. I ask God to transform you by the power of his love and show you how love should be experienced when it’s from him and with him at the center of it. God, I thank you for loving your people and I ask that you pour out your spirit of truth in every atmosphere of those seeking to understand love. Reassure them that true love has already found them through you and that they lack nothing. Show your sons and daughters that they already have the greatest love story ever written. Remind them that love is already theres and they can never be separated from it. Restore every feeling of unworthiness. Bind up every pain, wound and dark matter in their mind and heart that went wayward from the experiences that love didn’t give them. Touch their hearts and soften them. Father Blow your breath on their heart to resuscitate it, and give them a new heart rhythm. Father, let the blood of Jesus flow in and through their hearts and fill them up with your unfailing love. Father, let your love console them in all their ways and for all of their days. Most importantly, when the time is right, grant them the permission to share that which belongs to you with whom they’re assigned to. May they recognize your love in all forms and be a good steward over this most precious gift. May the interactions of the love they share and experience reflect all of you. Let all the love that they receive be pure, perfect, grounded in truth and last forever because it’s from you. It’s in Jesus Christ name, I pray, ask, and give thanks. Amen.
Will you accept the love that God wants to give to you, my Brothers and Sisters?
Receive it, it’s already yours!
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