Love is!
Our ability to love comes from God's original desire to love us first!
What a concept to consider!
Today more than ever we seem to be focused on the need for acceptance and love. Commercials on the television challenge us with the reality that love moves mountains and breaks down barriers of all kinds! Parents are inundated with seminars, books, and shows on the big screens in their living rooms reminding them to love and nurture each other and the precious gifts God has given them called their children.
Love most definitely is a great thing to focus and to draw people's attention to because in the end it is the one thing that cuts through so many tragedies and injustices here on this sin-filled planet.
However, in order to understand the true perspective of love as it is intended to be we need to understand the author and perfecter and originator of love and that is God himself!
God is LOVE... and we have the potential to express and embrace love because as John reminds us God first loved us!
Love is not some syrupy emotion that is fleeting and fluctuating... it is a gift given to us by the ONE who created us. It is a gift meant for relationship with Him and with others and to be shared with the world around us!
To take God out of the equation of love is something we should never attempt to do because when we remove the originator from the picture we're left with something that is only a mere fabrication of the REAL deal!
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