Living In Love

How can anyone always live in love?  If I was asked this question I would say that you would have to be connected to the One that is the source of love because He is love.  Read John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

God is love, and He always works from that position, in other words that is always His starting point.  Think of this, even when it comes to His enemies, He loves them also.  He not only loves them, but He also says that we should love and pray and do good to our enemies.  When God’s word says that He gave his only Son that whosoever believed in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life, that meant everyone including His enemies.  Now think of this, we were all God’s enemies because we were all born in sin and because of our sin nature we were separated from God with no way of getting right with Him.  God loved us so much that He made a way through His Son and His Son became the sacrificial Lamb, one who had no sin took on himself the sins of mankind.  

Now read John 3:17, “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”

There is only one way to be saved and that is to be forgiven of your sins and to be washed by the blood of Jesus!!  There is but one way to get to God and that is through Jesus His only begotten Son. Please read John 14:6, “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’”

Now read Romans 5:6-8, “For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.”  

Now read Ephesians 2:4-7, “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”

I think that we can only live in love, like I said, through a relationship with God; so, if you would like to experience true love, and not the kind that is all talk and no action, then you will need to have a personal relationship with God.  I am not saying that non-believers can never show love or do good things, not at all, what I am saying is this, to experience and understand true genuine love you must be connected to the author of love which is God Himself!!  I don’t think this can happen without being genuinely sorry for your sins.

Read what it says in 2 Corinthians 7:10, “For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.”

If this is the way you feel ask the Lord to forgive you of your sins and cleanse you from all unrighteousness and to be your Lord and Savior, then start growing in your newfound faith.  Start fellowshipping with other believers, read the word of God and start praying and praising the Lord daily.  I hope this has been a help and encouragement.  May the good Lord bless you and yours and may you all have a super day!!