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It is Valentine’s Day week, and I have a very important question for you.  What happens when we love the wrong things?  The answer is clear.  That is if you check out what God says, and my premise is this: whatever we look at longingly and lovingly we will become like and love more.

 

1 John 2:15  NLT

Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.

 

Another thing about loving the wrong thing is that we will know less and less of what real love is.  We won’t have God’s love.  We won’t demonstrate the love of God.  We will forget that we are loved.  Why?  It is because we have left unconditional love for something that feels good.

 

1 John 4:10  NLT

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.

 

Real love is different.  This love opposes wrong things we should not love.  This real love is unselfish and does for others without expecting anything in return.

 

Jesus overlooks our sin.  That is real love.  Sacrifice is what real love does.  Real love looks past our flaws to who we can be and who we really are.

 

John 15:13  NLT

There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

 

May we demonstrate real love.  What real love looks like, acts like, what real love does for others, and how real love turns from the wrong kind of love.  

 

No more fake love.  Just the real thing.  Like God loves us every day.

 

Romans 12:9  NLT

Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.

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