What’s LOVE Got to Do with It ?
Since it is the month of February and the primary focus for this month is on Valentine’s Day I thought I would write a blog about
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Everyone longs to give themselves to someone: to have a deep, meaningful relationship with another, to be loved thoroughly and exclusively. But this is not possible until you are satisfied, fulfilled and content with being loved by GOD alone. Giving yourself totally and unreservedly to HIM in order to have an intensely personal and unique relationship with HIM and only in HIM alone.
GOD is love.
GOD LOVES YOU…until you discover that only in HIS love is your satisfaction to be found, you will not be capable of the perfect human relationship that GOD has planned for you. You will never be united with another until you are united with HIM; exclusive of anyone or anything else, exclusive of any other desires or longings. Stop wishing…just keep loving GOD…expecting the greatest things. Keep listening and learning the things HE tells you.
This is how GOD showed HIS love among us: HE sent HIS one and only Son into the world that we might live through HIM.
Don’t be anxious, don’t worry, don’t look around at the things others have or what GOD has given them. Don’t look at the things you think you want. You just keep looking to HIM, for you will miss what HE wants to show you. When you are ready…HE will surprise you with a love more wonderful than you would ever have dreamed of…with HIMSELF through HIS Son JESUS CHRIST! Until you are satisfied exclusively with GOD and the life HE has prepared for you…you will not be able to experience the love that exemplifies your relationship with HIM…which is a perfect love.
This is love: not that we loved GOD, but that HE loved us and sent HIS Son as an atoning for sacrifice for sins.
(1 John 4:10)
GOD wants you to have this wonderful love. And HE wants you to see in the flesh a picture of your relationship with HIMand to enjoy materially and concretely the everlasting union of beauty, perfection and love that HE offers you with HIMSELF.
If GOD lives in us and HIS love is made complete in us.
(1 John 4:12b)
Finally, know that when you long for another person, possession or position…you are experiencing the same yearning that GOD has towards you at that same moment. Believe it, receive it…be satisfied…know that you are loved immensely by GOD!
For GOD so loved YOU that HE gave HIS one and only Son, that whoever believes in HIM shall not perish but have eternal life.
My question to you is “Are you completely filled with GOD’s love?” If not, HE offers HIS love through asking, believing and placing your faith in HIS one and only Son JESUS CHRIST. No human love can fill that void or hole within your heart that you have been longing for in your life.
The goal of our instruction is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
I have experienced GOD’s unconditional love since I was 22 years old and HIS love has satisfied (and continues to satisfy me) me in every heartbeat of my life. And so can you… just by asking GOD to receive HIS love that HE has for you by asking, believing and placing your faith in JESUS CHRIST in the following prayer…
Dear GOD…I know that you created me to have a personal relationship with you and I want to know you personally. I know that I am a sinner and that my sin separates me from you, but I believe you sent your one & only son JESUS CHRIST to die for me in order to forgive me of my sins because you love me so much. I believe HE died on the cross, was buried and rose three days later and is now up in heaven preparing a place for me to be with You. JESUS, I ask you to be my Savior & my Lord so I can live for you because you died for me. Thank you JESUS & thank you GOD for forgiving me of all my sins and for giving me new meaning & purpose in my life-amen!
(**Please take time to read my blog entitled: “Purpose & Meaning of Life” for a more detailed explanation of what a loving relationship with GOD means and looks like…thanks!**)
So…What’s LOVE Got to Do with It ?…
EVERYTHING…
Because GOD is LOVE
And HE LOVES
YOU!
Let me close by leaving you with the following words of encouragement:
GOD is a GOD who desires and longs to have a personal relationship with each one of us as HIS most cherished and loved creation!
“Thank you Heavenly FATHER for the gift of your
Son JESUS CHRIST…it’s because of HIM that you revealed your love to me and brought me back into a personal & loving relationship with you. It’s not what I do for you, but who I am in YOU. And it’s because of your love for me that I can love YOU and love others in return regardless of whether or not they love me in return. Your love is not conditional but unconditional and it’s not because I’m lovable, but because it’s your nature and that YOU ARE LOVE! I LOVE YOU FATHER because YOU first loved me. I’m so grateful and so thankful… may my life reflect my love for you in return. In JESUS’ loving name…Amen.”
Wishing all of you…my friends, family, Rachel and everyone else a Happy Valentine’s Day…letting you know that I thank GOD for each and every one of you & that YOU ARE LOVED more than you realize or know!!
” LOVE is patient, LOVE is kind. It is not jealous, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. LOVE does not delight in evil but rejoices in truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perserveres. LOVE never fails…now these three remain: faith, hope and LOVE. But the greatest of these is LOVE.”
( 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a,13 )
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY !
