the bible says that love is a commitment. 1 john 4.16 says (cev), GOD is love. if we keep on loving others, we will stay one in our hearts with GOD and HE will stay one with us.
our relationship with GOD is largely affected by our relationship with other people. if we stay in love, then we will keep in one with our hearts with GOD, and HE’ll stay in one with us. because GOD is love.
notice the phrase, keep on loving. love keeps on. love is durable. love keeps on giving whether you like it or not. love keeps on keeping on. kind of like the energizer bunny. it keeps on giving, it keeps on loving, it keeps on going.
GOD is the only one who can give you a love that will last a lifetime. all other human love fails. it’s not strong enough. GOD’s love in your heart can help you through the inevitable test of your love.
my suspicion is that all of us need a lot of work in this area. i don’t know anybody who’s got this one down pat. we all have a lot of growing to do in mature love.
so how do you do it? how do you build a life of real deep love? how to get stated. there are some things that you can do this week that will help you get on the road to becoming a truly great lover, a truly great person of love. because this is what matters most in life.
one is learn how mature love acts and responds. personal change always begins with a change in perspective. it involves getting GOD’s perspective on what love is really like. because, as i said, the world knows nothing about real, deep love. get GOD’s perspective on what love is all about because GOD is love.
another is start your day with a daily reminder to love. the first 10 minutes of your day sets your entire mood for the rest of the day. if you’ll get up in the morning and say, “GOD, i just want to remind myself that the most important thing is love. loving you and loving other people.” if you’ll do that at the start of the day before you get busy, you pause and say, “help me to remember this because it’s so easy to forget. that if i don’t get anything else done today, if i just love YOU a little bit more, and i love the people that YOU put around me just a little bit more, this day has gone ok regardless of what else happens. whether i get anything else done in life or not, if i love YOU and i love other people today, this is not a wasted day.”
if you don’t do that, you’ll get halfway into your day and then comes the conflict or the crisis or the confrontation and all of these things, and you’re tempted to be unloving because you didn’t start the day with that in mind.
just a thought from the front porch…
2 comments:
Hello Bill, This is an amazingly true post you have written. I agree that God is love and like him we as a people for some reason have not chosen to actually follow his example of "loving each other unconditionally". Is it easy? perhaps not, but if we all expect to see heaven, we're going to have to all get on "one" accord. Thanks for this blessing today. Take Care.
thanks calrence for your comment and connect.
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