What’s Love Got to Do with It?
And Is it just a second-hand emotion?
(Tina Turner’s Song)
“ We love because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19
When I sought to discover the Word’s definition of love, I discovered something very profound, and it is this; Until we experience God’s genuine love, we cannot love others, genuinely. It’s not only improbable but impossible. At the most, we can only go through the motions.
That’s when the Holy Spirit zeroed in on my struggle to really love others, without reservation or hesitation.
Recently, I’ve been experiencing some trials that equate to “rejection”. I hate to admit this, but even knowing what the Word says about God’s unconditional love, I began to think because I didn’t measure up at times to what I thought I should be, God was withholding His love from me. But then the meaning of God’s love began to unfold and I began to see.
I can’t persuade anyone of God’s unconditional love, whenever I doubt this myself.
But when I take hold of how it’s not about what I did, do or don’t do, but about what God did in sending Jesus Christ to the cross, I can look outside myself and discover the power of His love.
God’s love (agape) is incomprehensible, it has no boundaries, nor measured, but rather poured out fully and completely on those who have accepted Christ’s sacrifice. (Ephesians 3:16-19)
If you want to see what love looks like on a daily basis read 1 Corinthians 13. But to understand what God’s divine love looks like, we have to look to the cross, where Jesus said,
“Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”
What did the thief do to earn his place in paradise? He believed that God loved Him, enough.
When we grasp the awesome revelation God’s love is enough, we are set free to love others, enough.
So what’s love got to do with our faith and salvation? Everything, For it is foundational to who we are in Christ. The Apostle John discovered it, and identified himself by saying, “The disciple whom Jesus loved.”
Know too, dear child of God, You are loved, unconditionally!
