Enduring Love
I woke up early yesterday morning and I began to think about how wonderful it was to have all my children and most of my grandchildren here on Christmas Day. How God had truly blessed me as a mother and that when I looked at my children I knew that there is practically nothing I would not do for them. I have this forever love for them. I tell them often that there is not anything they could do to ever make me stop loving them. I know my love for them is deep and genuine. This enduring love will remain until the end, simple because they are my children.
Don't get me wrong, there has been times that one or more of them have done something to make me want to hide. But, I would never leave them or forsake them, my love for them is everlasting love. So I asked myself, if I can have this kind of love as a human being how much deeper and wider is God's love for me? I know that I must learn to show His love by loving others in a deeper way. Not always wanting my way or the highway.
The greatest commandment that God gave us in known in Jewish faith as the Shema;
Hear , O Israel! LORD our God, LORD is one; and you are to love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your being and all your resources." Deut. 6:4-5 [Jewish Complete Bible].
Love is all about choice and commitment. Many of us go throughout our entire life focusing on how to get love or why we have the lack of love. We try to figure out our five love languages so we can get better love. We read hundreds of books throughout our lives on love and sex so we can get more love and sex. It is all about us for the most part, rarely about the other person. But, if you ever going to receive true love you have to be fully committed to loving other people especially when they least deserve it. You also have to be committed to loving God no matter what is happening in your own life. Very few of us think about the fact that love is a choice and a commitment that requires us to give up our lives for someone else. If we are not feeling it we want out of it. If you have an unfaithful heart to those you are in a relationship with, you will have an unfaithful heart to God. When our hearts are right and our ears are attuned to His voice, God will bring certain people into our life to teach us the meaning of love and to help us to have a faithful, committed and enduring love.
The heavenly Father loved us first, with all his heart, all his being and all his resources. No matter what we do, it does not change how He response to us. His greatest expression of love was through the creation of man-kind and then through the person of Jesus Christ. He chose to create us and then loved us by giving us eternal life through His Son Jesus the Messiah. Jesus chose to give his life up for us that we may become children of God. He personally chose to lay down His life, so you and I could have eternal life. No greater love!
I pray that whoever is reading this will be rooted and founded in love, so that you will be given strength to grasp the breadth, length, height, and depth of the Messiah's love, yes, to know it, even though it is beyond all knowing. Why don't you accept His love into your heart today. Ask Him to forgive you for the wrong you have done and be your Lord and Savior.
Don't get me wrong, there has been times that one or more of them have done something to make me want to hide. But, I would never leave them or forsake them, my love for them is everlasting love. So I asked myself, if I can have this kind of love as a human being how much deeper and wider is God's love for me? I know that I must learn to show His love by loving others in a deeper way. Not always wanting my way or the highway.
The greatest commandment that God gave us in known in Jewish faith as the Shema;
Hear , O Israel! LORD our God, LORD is one; and you are to love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your being and all your resources." Deut. 6:4-5 [Jewish Complete Bible].
Love is all about choice and commitment. Many of us go throughout our entire life focusing on how to get love or why we have the lack of love. We try to figure out our five love languages so we can get better love. We read hundreds of books throughout our lives on love and sex so we can get more love and sex. It is all about us for the most part, rarely about the other person. But, if you ever going to receive true love you have to be fully committed to loving other people especially when they least deserve it. You also have to be committed to loving God no matter what is happening in your own life. Very few of us think about the fact that love is a choice and a commitment that requires us to give up our lives for someone else. If we are not feeling it we want out of it. If you have an unfaithful heart to those you are in a relationship with, you will have an unfaithful heart to God. When our hearts are right and our ears are attuned to His voice, God will bring certain people into our life to teach us the meaning of love and to help us to have a faithful, committed and enduring love.
The heavenly Father loved us first, with all his heart, all his being and all his resources. No matter what we do, it does not change how He response to us. His greatest expression of love was through the creation of man-kind and then through the person of Jesus Christ. He chose to create us and then loved us by giving us eternal life through His Son Jesus the Messiah. Jesus chose to give his life up for us that we may become children of God. He personally chose to lay down His life, so you and I could have eternal life. No greater love!
I pray that whoever is reading this will be rooted and founded in love, so that you will be given strength to grasp the breadth, length, height, and depth of the Messiah's love, yes, to know it, even though it is beyond all knowing. Why don't you accept His love into your heart today. Ask Him to forgive you for the wrong you have done and be your Lord and Savior.
I truly appreciate this as a mother and a daughter of Christ. When I think about all the things God could have left me for, I am so grateful that He never has and every time I returned to Him feeling shame, lost, confused, or even lonely, His love was ALWAYS truly the same. I would like to thank you for the comments you made about how we as a people (especially women) go through life searching for love and sex when the ultimate commitment is right before us in Him. He has everything we need...Thank you for this one today!
ReplyDelete