Everything we know, every concept we have, is tainted by sin and evil. no, not tainted, fully polluted. this includes our idea of love. our love is not like God's love. God's love is perfect. God's love is unconditional. We throw that word around a lot, "unconditional", but think about what it means. This is who we are without Christ:
"For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our day in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another." Titus 3:3
"BUT God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8
it doesn't matter who you are, what you've done, where you've been...God LOVES his people.
our love is not perfect. and our love is very conditional. sure, your spouse, children, closest friends and family- we may love them no matter what they do. but we do not always TREAT them in love. we all know what 1 Corinthians 13 tells us that love is. "love is patient and kind, love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong-doing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." based off of that, how often would we have to say, "I have not loved."?
this song is called "Love" by Above the Golden State. (they're a new band, the CDs not out yet. but as soon as it is, you should get it!)
Father, i pray for a love like Yours! i pray i would love others as You have shown me undeserving, unconditional love. I pray for a heart like Yours, that i would seek to reflect Your image.
"I have loved you with an everlasting love." Jer. 31:3
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another." John 13:34
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hmmm. i have not loved.
John 13:1 -- Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the full extent of His love.
great post, thanks.
how can we ever?! and yet, we're commanded to! i love the verse jer 31:3!
but it's a fruit of the Spirit Whom we have within us, so we CAN love.
strive on!
Wise and beautiful. My loving STINKS, no doubt about it. I pray He will give us a huge desire and an ability to love well.
i agree with angela. it is a fruit of the Spirit so we CAN, but most of us don't love in the way the Lord does or the way He wants us to. For some i think the Lords love is hard to fathom and it is but will enough faith you can get there.... i am 1,000% sure of it!
Its one of the things that i have been spending time with God on in the Bible.
thanks for the post, yet another sucess by megan huag! :)
that is a beautiful song. i love it. when it comes out i will have my dad get it.he'll like it!!!!!!!
yep, Megan, now i know why i didn't REALLY read your blog all the way through the first time. . . rebellion. . . the question I asked you today. . . the answer- pray for love like Yours to mine
oops- it's "I pray for love like Yours for me." Anyway, it's good stuff.
you guys can check out my blog if you go to my mos blog.and megan i have a question.at the vinyard are their any good teen bibles cause i'm lookin for one.umm my bible is kinda falling apart.like really bad. hehehe.
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.
1John 4:16 - And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
John 15:12 - My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
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