God is Love - (Day Two)

Yesterday we discovered that society’s definition of love is tied to our emotions and can be superficial.  Too often, when we say we love someone, it is based on our attraction to them and how they make us feel.  Conditional.  Our love fulfills a need in us before we can love others.  Perhaps you or someone you know have said things like, “I love him because... ‘He’s cute,’ or ‘He’s a lot of fun,’ or ‘He really cares about me.’” 

Watch out!  Our love for others is also unpredictable.  Just visit a Family Court session on any given day and you will see couples, who once loved each other, in the fight of a lifetime.  Through various circumstances they have “fallen out of love.”  No longer do they “feel” love for one another.  Their marriage vows, unfortunately, only lasted a season.

But, wait!  There is a bigger love than this one.  A love that isn’t based on warm and fuzzy feelings.  A love that no one can change no matter how good or bad they are.  This is a love that is unconditional and never fails.  God’s love…1 John 4:8

“God is LOVE.”   

“Beloved, let us love one another,

for love is from God;

and everyone who loves is

born of God and knows God.

⁸The one who does not love

does not know God, for God is love.

⁹By this the love of God was manifested in us,

 that God has sent His only begotten Son

into the world so that we might live through Him.

¹⁰In this is love, not that we loved God,

but that He loved us and sent His Son

to be the propitiation for our sins.

¹¹Beloved, if God so loved us,

we also ought to love one another.”

1 John 4:7-11 (NASB)

Forever His,

Anita