We know that God is love. 1 John 4:16. Our problem is that we have so watered down the word that it has lost its real meaning. We think it’s an emotion, a feeling and not a commitment.
It isn’t “Never having to say you’re sorry.” That’s just a haunting line from a movie.
It’s not something you can fall in and out of. That’s just the excuse of those who have never known real love.
“The truth is “all you need is love” but without a life changing commitment, it is just a pretty good Beatle song.
Jesus taught that the only way to know love is to know God. Jesus Christ taught that knowledge requires us to forsake the present world system – its values, its ways, its philosophy, its language and style of speech, its pleasures – and our own life. And to surrender that life to Jesus of Nazareth, this world’s true Lord.
Getting to know God requires an intense focus on Him. It requires losing your life, laying it down, denying self. That kind of love is foreign to most today. In fact, such love is considered impossible. That’s understandable because that kind of love is impossible without Jesus and His Holy Spirit because only through knowing Him do we know God and thus know love.
Love isn’t conditional, temporary, mushy or easy.. It’s not something that can be fallen in and out of. Real love is giving up everything for Jesus. The strange thing is that when you do that you gain everything that is anything, including the ability to love like Jesus loved.
God is love, but without knowing Him, what we call “love” just isn’t.
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