True Love

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It seems that when God speaks to me on a subject I see the message repeated everywhere.  Does that happen to you?  This week, He’s been speaking to me about love.

NOTES

Love.  A popular notion.  A popular subject.  A popular theme in films!  There are so many kinds of love, though.  Finding “true love” is what made Disney a success.  What little girl hasn’t seen Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty and dreamed of finding her “prince” one day?  Then, there’s friendship love—precious and dear.  There’s love for your children or parents or siblings.  There are many kinds of love; but sometimes, the word is misused.  Physical love is what’s seen in way too many movies, but I dare to suggest that what’s promoted there isn’t love at all.  I “love” chocolate or a book or a TV show.

“God is love.”  That’s what the Bible tells us.  How in the world can the same word be used to define God and also my feelings about chocolate?  I’ve never studied Greek, but I’m told that language has many different words for our one word.  I think they had the right idea….

“True love”, not as Disney defined it but as God defined it, is what the Bible is all about.  And what does the Bible say?  It says that love, true love, is not a noun but is, instead, an action verb.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” 

--John 3:16 NIV

Are you a believer in Jesus Christ?  If not, the One True God, who lives beyond time and space, longs for you to accept the love He showed in the life and death and resurrection of His only Son.  Confess your sins and accept Him, and you will have God’s peace and guidance now and will live with Him forever!

If you are a believer, you have God!

“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 them.” 

--1 John 4:16

What an incredibly wonderful thing!  God lives in me!  Profound!  But as I ponder that thought, it digs deeper into my heart.  Earlier, I said that love is not a noun; it’s an action verb.  If that’s true, God “living in me” should be not just a profound thought.  It should have a profound influence on who I am and what I do.

Sounds like this subject needs to continue next time….