What are your thoughts on love? I mean seriously. I'm not talking about like romance or anything like cheesy...i'm talking about true love. I don't know about everyone else, but a lie that I've told myself for a long time is that love never lasts. Where do I get this idea from? Well the same place everyone who has ever been heart broken before gets it from. The way the world treats love is as if its a passing thing. More like a phase or a hobby than a part of life. From the moment we are born we start to create an idea of what love is in our own minds. Over the span of our lives we add to and mold what our idea of love is. After you have been through a series of events in your life: being picked last in grade school, not winning the spelling bee, not having a boyfriend/girlfriend until years after all your friends had, parents getting a divorce, going through countless breakups, watching tv shows about one night stands and summer flings, always listening to what the media tells you about how you should look and never meeting its standards...it doesn't take long for your idea of love to be completely distorted from what God meant for it to be. Since when did we listen to God about everything else in the Bible and believing everything he says other than all those countless verses about love? Oh sure we know about God's love intellectually, but do we know the truth of it down deep in our inmost being? I can answer this one...no. If we truly believed to the core what God tells us...promises us about love, we would never once doubt love in our lives. We would understand what love really is. Not the world's poor excuse for love, but God's perfect, holy, unconditional love.
So what are some things He has told us about love and His love for us?
Jeremiah 31:3 "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness."
1 John 3:1 "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we may be called children of God!"
Romans 5:5 "And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us."
and possibly the most love-packed verse in the whole Bible...John 3:16 "For God SO LOVED the world that he sent his one and only son to die, so that whosoever believes in him will not perish but will have everlasting life."
I could go on and on.
I think it's about time we start BELIEVING what God tells us about love. Stop listening to what the world tells you about love. Stop listening to what you have told yourself about love. Start listening to what God tells you about love...he is love after all.
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