Love

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:37-39

Most of us would vehemently say that we love God, but do we love Him with all our hearts, souls, and minds? Do we love our neighbors as ourselves? For some of us those questions are easy to answer but there are those of us who might find it difficult to answer.

Let’s go back to the time when we first got saved…for some of us from that very moment all we wanted to do was to eat, sleep, and breathe God. For some of us food and sleep didn’t matter we just wanted to breath God. It was like when you fell in love for the first time and all you wanted to do was be with the person you love. Being in love with God is like that and so much more. When you love God with all your heart, soul and mind you live with the sole purpose of pleasing the One who saved you and it shows in everything you do. Being in love with God means you are full of the love of God because it is a relationship where the Father enjoys nothing more than to show you His love for you. Therefore loving your neighbor as you love yourself is a piece of cake! It’s like second nature because when the love of God abides you it has to pour out on others. You just can’t help it! The love just oozes out of you. J My sister calls it a love burst when you feel love just oozing out of you.

Sadly, in these last days, many Christians have forgotten what it felt like to be in love with the Lord and how to display it to others. The Bible says that love covers a multitude of sins. When people are broken, hurting, and a mess, love brings them to the cross. Love heals wounds, love gives strength, love gives the desire to press forward and love shows how to love others. Whose love is this that I’m talking about?? God’s love. The Bible says that God is love, therefore if God is love and you love God with all your heart, soul, and mind, you will reflect that love because when you abide in Him, He abides in you. The only love that is compared to the love of God is the love of a mother. A mother will lay down her life for her children and that is what Jesus did. He laid down His life for us because He loved us.

So how do we find that love again? Go back to the first time you fell in love with Him and fall in love with Him again. Continue to do so everyday. God has been so good to us that it shouldn’t be hard to fall in love with Him everyday. His love will cause you to love others! You will be full of love bursts for others that will help them heal, stand firm, and love in return. I am a witness of the power of God’s love. It has brought beauty for ashes in my life and in the lives of many others. Let’s ask God to fill us with His love everyday so that we can love our brothers and sisters. So that we can love the backslidden and the lost, so that we can love those that have never known, experienced or received love so that they too can love. God has called us to mend, restore, heal, and deliver, but without love, we can do none of these. Paul said though he speak in different tongues, without love it is like a clanging symbol. We must learn to walk in love, give love freely, and receive love from our Father as well as our neighbors. Church, God is calling us to love more and fight less. God is calling us give love freely without expecting anything in return. Yes there will be those who we pour out our love on and they don’t seem to notice, but that’s ok! Don’t be discouraged! You are doing the will of your Father by loving that person no matter how insufferable he/she is. God wants us to love HIM without reserves, to love Him unconditionally. I believe that is the reason why He gives us the choice whether or not to serve Him because He wants us to serve Him because we love Him and want to please Him. He does not want a dictatorship, He wants a relationship! Hallelujah!!! How awesome is that?? I feel a love burst coming on for my King!!! Glory, glory! Church let’s ask God to fill us to overflowing with His love and His mercy for our neighbors that we may please Him in all that we do.

Heavenly Father,
We come before You with thanksgiving and praise that You loved us so much that You gave Your only son to save us so that we could have a relationship with You. Help us Lord, to walk in love and honor You. Fill us with Your love everyday so that we may pour it out on others the way You want us to. Help us to never forget the day we first fell in love with You because You were already in love with us. Father bless all those who are reading this inspiration today and give them a double portion of Your love so that they will be bursting with love bursts for everyone who comes there way. Most importantly Lord remind us to always love You with all hearts, with all our souls, with all our minds and with all our strength.

In Jesus mighty name we pray,
Amen!