Make sure you read part one first: Love
Never Fails- Part One
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John 4:7-8; 11-12 “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God
and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love… Dear friends, since God so
loved us, we also ought to love one
another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in
us and his love is made complete in us.”
The first part of this verse says the words love comes from God. There it is.
Technically, I could end the blog right here and it would suffice because this
answers the problem. The problem is that we think we can learn to love others. It doesn’t work that way. We either love
people or we don’t, and this love is from
God. If you think you love someone without the love of God, then you really don’t
love them. If you think you love someone with the love of God, I want to
challenge you to really examine that love and find out if that love is truly of
God.
I encourage you to head on over to Brandon’s
blog and read his Pickle Post because he covered
this topic really well. But briefly, I would just like to say that God’s love
is not conditional and human love is.
Many of those reading this blog would say that they love me.
Why? Is it because I’m nice? Because I am a good person? If I were to be
stripped of every good quality, would you still love me? If you were to take
away everything that described me as a person, every trait you could think of,
and all that was left was me, the essence/core of Christie, what would you
think of me then? Try to describe why you love me without using any
qualities/traits. True love from God has nothing to do with how nice or not I
am, or any qualities that I have. God loves the core of who Christie is. To
truly love me means that you would too.
I know, it’s hard. It’s downright impossible. How can you
just love the core of someone without basing that love on characteristics of
that person? Well, let’s go back to that first verse: Love comes from God. If you want to love people the way that we
are called to, ask God. Ask God to give you this true love. It’s the only way.
You can’t learn it, you can’t do it on your own; it can only come from God.
“And all things you ask in prayer, believing,
you shall receive.” Matthew 21:22
Don’t worry, I’m right there with you; it’s not an easy
thing, but it is important. We are commanded to love others. And if you look
back at the first passage, in verse 12, it says …but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made
complete in us.
Sounds like a plan to me. What do you say? Are you in?
