Love what do we define it as? Some people say I love the ocean, I love this sandwich but what about when it comes to us saying I love Jesus? We use the term love so much in this day in age I think we have forgotten what it means when we say we love Jesus. When you love something you give your time and passion to it no matter what it is, whether it be a relationship a hobby or just everyday. So much we say I love you Jesus but I am too busy to spend even 30 minutes with you a day. It is funny how we can watch our favorite TV show we "love" yet when it comes to soaking up some Jesus time in the Word we say oh I am too tired or oh I have to check my Facebook for the thousand time. It has be drawn to my attention lately that even I have said I love Jesus yet sometimes I don't show it. And please don't get me wrong I am not condemning you because "we all have fallen short of the glory of God" ~ Romans 3:23 but I want to get to know my God more. I want to love him more like I love the things I put my passion into. I get puzzled sometimes when I find my self trying to satisfy the love God gives me with other things like : Relationships, Materialistic things and things I put my time and devotion into excepting to get some kind of reward or something. I know in the bible it says : why do we look towards the things of the world because the things or the world will perish but the things of the Lord are ETERNAL. The fruits of the Lord are: Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness and self control those are the things that will remain. LOVE isn't that funny that is the first fruit of the spirit? 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 says if we do not have love we gain nothing. Sometimes I think we don't know how to love because we cannot accept the Love of the Father. We get caught up in our pride and our sinful ways and say I cannot let God love me because of what I have done did and will do. But truth be told God already knew where you were going to fall but he knows you will arise too Micah 7:8. He forgives you also not because of what we have done but what he sent His son to do. He doesn't look at our past with negative eyes but he still sees the beauty he created. He created us to Love him and for him to love us. His love won't ever fail us. So many times we get caught into this cycle of old habits and old sin why because it is what we know is comfortable we are creatures of habit. We feel feeble and weak and we feel we have lost all hope but that is a lie. Because the bible clearly states in Psalms 89:1 ~ I will declare that YOUR love stands FIRM forever. God's love won't ever change towards us our God isn't a God of change but of love he isn't a God of anger but a God of compassion towards his children. We make his love this complicated thing that we have to work for his love (maybe for some of you, that's how your earthly father was) We get this mindset that we also have to work for this love when rather it is a free gift. We say but I don't understand how it can be free there must be some fine print somewhere along this contract but honestly their isn't God loved us before we were born. He knows us from the inside out and he know everything about us more than we will ever know. We need to learn to accept his love and let it consume us from the inside out. Hebrews 12:29 states our God is a consuming fire. His love will spark something in you and that will help you learn to love others. When we accept his love it isn't just a momentary bliss but a life time bliss. It isn't any more of having to read your bible because that is what you are suppose to do but rather wanting to read it because you want to get to Him and his love better. Sometimes we get so empty we don't know how to fill back up but that where we can just fall on our knees and cry out saying God I need your love today. God hasn't ever stopped loving us. He whispers our names daily crying out " Oh my beautiful I love you so much and I am here for you and I know what you are going through but it will be all ok" No matter what situation nothing can ever separate us from the love of Christ ~Romans 8:37-39. Nothing will ever separate us. So many times we say we go through seasons of Us "feeling his love" or not feeling it. God's love isn't ever defined as a feeling or not God loves us REGARDLESS of what we have done or ever will do. His love is the same each morning and each night He thinks how beautiful his creation is and how precious we are to him. When we let God's love consume us we can also learn to love again love our father who hurt us when we were younger, love that enemy love that neighbor. Love is a critical thing to hold close to your heart. When we don't love we lose an opportunity to show Jesus to the world. Loving someone else is a choice it is a choice to wake up each day and say today I am going to love my sister. Its not a hard choice to make you either do it or you don't. The definition of love is found in the bible; 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love is patient, Love is kind, it doesn't envy or boast, it is not proud, it doesn't dishonor others, it isn't self seeking, it isn't easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs, love doesn't delight in evil but rejoices in truth. It always protects, it always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. Sometimes it is hard to live by the definition of love. I know if you put my name in replace of love I don't don half of those things. To love like I said is a choice. It is your choice also to wake up and say I am going to love Jesus today it is saying to God that I am going to trust you not matter what my situation may be today what winds might come but I am going to trust and keep you close to my heart. So lets learn to love again. Because he first loved us.
God Bless
