“Love, Never Understood” We, as a people, say we love, but do we? Love is not a measure of words or deeds and really has no emotional attachment to it, love is an action, a verb, a service, and actually love is serving. Serving without reservation or resistance to anything good, but not according to our understanding or interpretation. How can our borders be expanded if we don’t give all we have and all we are, to serve others as if we’re serving God, Himself. 1Co 13:4 Love is patient; love is kind. Love does not envy; is not boastful; is not conceited; 1Co 13:5 does not act improperly; is not selfish; is not provoked; does not keep a record of wrongs; 1Co 13:6 finds no joy in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth; 1Co 13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1Co 13:8 Love never end If you have ever experienced God’s love, you would truly have the beginnings to understanding what God means by love. Love is patient; consider how patient God has been in waiting for us to stop running from Him, for me, it was 42 years and even then, He waited for me to remove my brain cavity from my, no sunshine cavity. The whole time, He tugged at me gently, sometimes it seemed as if I felt His caress in my sleep and His calming during my busyness. Love is kind; this is compassion displayed through selfless and generous actions without finding wrongs or faults. To be kind is to be tenderhearted, full of mercy, splurging in compassion, in other words, treating others as you would want to be treated. Love does not envy; there is no jealousy involved in true love, no one owns anyone else, but we all are caretakers of one another. Caretakers are not man’s description but rather God’s, one who is always willing to set personal desires aside and do all to meet the needs of others, not really the physical things. We must not live our lives as if we’re the only interest we have, but we must live as if God’s interests are our only true interest. Love is not boastful; is it really love to brag about all the things we’ve done for someone else. Is it really love if we brag on ourselves to the one’s we’re trying to comfort in love? This is nothing more than a hammer to someone’s soul, beating them down with incessant reminders of what you considered an act of love. Love is not conceited; this is actually a point of pain for some, as if to say, I did all these wonderful things for you, but you didn’t notice, or what you did for me wasn’t good enough. To run around telling someone you love them is merely words, to brag on it or to think yourself perfect in your understanding of love and how to show it, is in fact conceit. It’s kind of the same thing God said; Isa 29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Love does not act improperly; how can love be love if it’s always demanding, shallow, or otherwise self-indulgent. Can you slap or curse a spouse and call it love? Can you really say love is a perpetration that goes against God’s mercy and compassion? Love shows no semblance of rudeness. Love is not selfish; why do people demand their own way and satisfaction, leaving others unfulfilled, not caring about others. Why do people think they’re constantly right in all things while endlessly finding fault with others or their significant other. Love is not provoked; just because something didn’t go the way you wanted it, or meets with your expectation(s), and it doesn’t give anyone the right to find fault either physically, emotionally, or verbally bullying others. When you become provoked or angered, compassion goes straight out the window and stupid, mean stupid is becomes the format. In this format, reason goes and foolishness becomes the base of emotional ruling. Love does not keep a record of wrongs; where does it make sense to constantly beat someone up over past mistakes? What is it that possesses people to think its right to throw stones of guilt and shame at people for things they’ve done in the past, this is utter cruelty. Man’s idea and or thoughts of what love is, is so far from the truth, it’s no wonder satan has a field day with deceiving us mere mortals. We, as children of the most high God, seriously need to stop leaning to our own understanding or interpretations of God’s Word, and God’s love, they truly are nothing like our experiences and knowledge. If we actually took the time to seek God, to better understand these things, and actually applied them, we as the church would return back to being the head and not the tail. Not only that, we would see things like unity and compassion for one another grow, each and every day. Jesus came to re-teach us, and show us how to live and think, with the heart of God and the mind of Christ. He also came in flesh form to show us, we who are flesh are also able to do the what, and how, that He did, while on this earth. Man must repent of thinking himself so superior to all forms of life, because in that superior thought pattern that we have developed, we tend to think ourselves superior to God also. If we learn to walk this walk, with the mindset that God is right there, then we might tend to think and do differently, a more complete attitude; Gen 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. Deu 18:13 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. Deu 32:3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. Deu 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. We can’t afford to not repent, and we can’t afford to continue to mock God, by refusing to do this life the way He directed it and in His love, Amen!!!
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:07:17 +0000
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