God's love is something that I will most likely never understand until the day I see Him face to face. I was sitting here tonight contemplating love. I was thinking about how we show each other love. I was thinking about how families love one another and in what ways they show it
I think sometimes it is so easy to take that word and make it something so insignificant. The word love carries so much power. I think about the love I have for my wife. There is literally not one thing that I wouldn't do for her. (except lay off sugar) ha ha. I would walk to the ends of the earth for her. But I struggle to take out the trash for her. I would lay down my life for her, but I struggle to do dishes for her. My children, I would gladly lay down my life for, but I sometimes neglect spending the time with them that they deserve.
I guess I am just blogging about my feelings tonight, because I see God's love in my own life. I see it in every conceivable way; Big and small.
Today a young man asked me, "why did Jesus weep?" My response to him was that it showed Jesus' tremendous love for His children. When Jesus cried for Mary, Martha, and those who loved the fallen Lazarus He did so out of love. He knew that He was just minutes away from raising Lazarus from the dead. But it was a heart of hurt for those who hurt. Jesus saw the devastation in the heart of those who mourned and even though He would fix the problem, He mourned right along with them. View this here
I look at my life and I think of how far God has brought me all these years. He took a selfish, hard-hearted fella like me and put me in a place to work for the King of all Kings. I actually have a job to do in the work of the Kingdom and that blows me away that He loves me that much that He would allow me this privilege. God's love is without bounds, it knows no limit.
That is why I feel it is so vital that we show love to one another....big and small. You can say you would defend your brother or sister when times get tough. But how can that be true, if we won't defend them when things aren't that tough? I want to challenge each one of us to look at God's love as a portrait of what we should do for others.
1 John 3:14 says, "We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death."
Remember, the proof of your relationship with God is based on your love for others.
"If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen."-1 John 4:20
Today, allow your heart to be filled with the love that only God can put in it. Show your love, whether big or small. Demonstrate your love for God, by the way you love others. And above all else....know this:
"God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" Romans 5:8
My friends, love God first and others as you love yourself and you will have fulfilled exactly what God desires for your life.
Be Blessed,
G
