Did you know that God is love? Not just that He has the capacity to love, but that He is love. This is an immutable part of who He is. It is as true for Him as it is for me to say that I am a woman. No matter my emotional or physical state, my womanhood never changes. Likewise God is love. In fact, He is perfect love. I just love that about Him and knowing that it will never change gives me peace. The truth that God is love is foundational for me. I learned it as a young girl growing up in church. I can still hear the Sunday school teacher reciting 1 John 4:7-8 to us. “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
I am so thankful for her teaching because as an adult I have learned that the highest calling we will ever have is to love. The reason the calling is so great and so high is because our love is not to be limited to only those who are nice to us, or those who never give us any grief. As believers in the Lord Jesus Christ we are called to love everyone. When Christ was asked which is the great commandment in the law? He responded, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ “This is the first and great commandment. “And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’ “On these two commandments hang the Law and the Prophets.” Notice the love we are called to have for the Lord and the love we are called to have for others. None of Christ’s words of love were conditional. If it were conditional then it would not be supernatural.
As I read on in 1 John 4 I discovered that I am not just to have an earthly kind of love but according to verse 18 a love that is capable of casting out fear. This verse speaks to me of a powerful love. Now before we all get overwhelmed with thinking that this kind of love is impossible, let me just say that apart from God we can never love like that. I can testify that I have tried to love people apart from God and I always fail miserably. Learn from my mistakes and run to He who is love and allow Him to fill you with His love that your joy may be full. He will take all His perfect love and pour it into your imperfect heart and enable you to love everyone. You will find yourself loving beyond your mind, will or emotions. You will love with power and without fear. You will begin to run to Him every day asking Him to fill you afresh with His perfect love. So I ask you again sisters, did you know that God is love?
Praying that you allow God to minister His love to you that He might minister through you this second week of advent.
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