When someone is
in love, they act funny. That is true,
but real love, the God kind of love, acts different than the world’s natural
love. It is best described in 1
Corinthians 13 or the love chapter.
Love finds its start, it’s origin and it’s foundation
in God. We didn’t come up with it, and
in fact love is not a special revelation of life showing up at our doorstep
somewhere along the way.
We love, because He first loved us.
God loved us.
God loves us. It really is the
foundation of all that is in the world.
When we believe that God is the creator of the world and that His plan
is why the world and we exist, the issue or importance of real love comes to
the front of everything.
“For God so loved
the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
Love is the reason God wants to be with us, His
children. He gave us a way to be loved
and to love him through Jesus. We cannot
have real, authentic, unconditional love without some kind of sacrifice because
sin perverts and prevents love.
Did you get that?
Sin perverts and prevents love. To
have God’s kind of love in our lives and running through us we have to be
running after God. Often love is seen as
a chase or a pursuit. When you are in
love with someone, you pursue him or her.
Right? Who are you pursuing today
and in your life?
God calls us to pursue Him. We need to understand as well that God came
to us as the Father who sent His son, Jesus, and who has finally sent Himself
in the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy
Spirit that we interact with today. He
indwells us after we are saved.
Pursuing the Spirit of God is real way to be filled
with the love of God, and to have the love of God flowing through us we have to
be following the Spirit of God. God
pursued us first. He made it possible
for us to pursue Him as well. This is
one of the first things we learn as a Christian.
But God demonstrates
His own love toward us, in that
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
To love is to demonstrate love. We have talked about that fact. Love is an action.
Love is not only an action but has a direction or a
target, if you will. The reason we might
act funny is because we are in love. If
we don’t care for a certain person, we will not pursue him or her.
And by the way, love often has to take on selfless
qualities. Love has to sacrifice as we
have already talked about.
Greater love
has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
Before we loved God or anyone else, God loved us, and
He continues to love us. That was a love
pursuing us for our good and for a relationship with God. Don’t miss what happened in that first
pursuit. It was and is still incredible
to see how God loves us. It is also incredible
to watch how God’s love controls us.
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