September 15, 2020 A MIRACLE TO EXPERIENCE DAILY
Romans 5:5 “and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”
1 John 4:7-9, 11, 16 “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.” “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” “And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.”
John 13:34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another even as have loved you, that you also love one another.”
To love as God loves us is indeed a miracle that we can experience daily. We hear and we use the word ‘love’ so often, we easily lose the meaning and the impact of love. The love that the above verses portray and the love that God has poured out into our hearts is the love of God, and it is a love unlike human love. Human love is self-centered; it is focused on what makes us happy and what is best for us. (One may out of human love serve in some way, but the motivation to serve is that he or she likes the way it makes them feel, etc.) God did not one day ‘decide’ to love-God is love. His love is a giving love that desires the well-being of others. A great understatement, but God is secure in His love; His love being expressed is not based on the actions of others; His love initiates. God loved us before we even knew Him and while we were lost in sin; God’s love reached into the darkness and rescued us-not because we deserved it, but because He loved us. The miracle is that He has poured His love into our hearts! We are no longer limited to human love; we can now love with the love of God. What a miracle! We can now share in and be expressions of this love that God has poured out into our hearts. We are free to love others and have their best interest in our hearts and look for ways to bless-no matter their response and no matter whether or not they ‘deserve our love’-that’s real freedom! God’s love is a serving love; now we can consider the needs of others more important than ours. Here is more good news: contrary to human logic, as we go about expressing and demonstrating this love that God has poured into our hearts, we find that we are fulfilled in the process and we make the great discovery that it is God’s design for us to be instruments of His love! The love of God is an extravagant love-it has no bounds. And, God loves a cheerful giver (2 Corinthians 9:6-7) and giving and expressing His love is the ultimate gift we can give. Christ in us is a continual fountain of love-a fountain that never runs dry. May we get beyond human love and even as flesh and bones, be expressions of the love of God.
Ephesians 3:17-19, “so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up with all the fullness of God. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”
Blessings, Buddy
September 15, 2020 A MIRACLE TO EXPERIENCE DAILY
Romans 5:5 “and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”
1 John 4:7-9, 11, 16 “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.” “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” “And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.”
John 13:34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another even as have loved you, that you also love one another.”
To love as God loves us is indeed a miracle that we can experience daily. We hear and we use the word ‘love’ so often, we easily lose the meaning and the impact of love. The love that the above verses portray and the love that God has poured out into our hearts is the love of God, and it is a love unlike human love. Human love is self-centered; it is focused on what makes us happy and what is best for us. (One may out of human love serve in some way, but the motivation to serve is that he or she likes the way it makes them feel, etc.) God did not one day ‘decide’ to love-God is love. His love is a giving love that desires the well-being of others. A great understatement, but God is secure in His love; His love being expressed is not based on the actions of others; His love initiates. God loved us before we even knew Him and while we were lost in sin; God’s love reached into the darkness and rescued us-not because we deserved it, but because He loved us. The miracle is that He has poured His love into our hearts! We are no longer limited to human love; we can now love with the love of God. What a miracle! We can now share in and be expressions of this love that God has poured out into our hearts. We are free to love others and have their best interest in our hearts and look for ways to bless-no matter their response and no matter whether or not they ‘deserve our love’-that’s real freedom! God’s love is a serving love; now we can consider the needs of others more important than ours. Here is more good news: contrary to human logic, as we go about expressing and demonstrating this love that God has poured into our hearts, we find that we are fulfilled in the process and we make the great discovery that it is God’s design for us to be instruments of His love! The love of God is an extravagant love-it has no bounds. And, God loves a cheerful giver (2 Corinthians 9:6-7) and giving and expressing His love is the ultimate gift we can give. Christ in us is a continual fountain of love-a fountain that never runs dry. May we get beyond human love and even as flesh and bones, be expressions of the love of God.
Ephesians 3:17-19, “so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up with all the fullness of God. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”
Blessings, Buddy
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