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Have you ever just sat back and thought about how much God loves you? It is easy to look out in this sinful world and not see His love, but it is there. In the last couple of weeks I realized something; that whatever I was searching for all those years has been right in front of me this whole time. I spent so much time praying for love, I spent so much time looking for this “father figure” to step up in my life, and teach me how to be the man I was meant to be. I looked for these things everywhere I went. The one place I looked the most was the Church, I believed in my heart that one of these older wiser men would someday step up, and show me how to be a man of God. What I forget was that God was working in me this entire time, and I had it in me all along. I can sit here and dwell in how much time I wasted, but there is no need for that. There were so many days I spent just being in love, but never showing my love. Love is the most powerful thing in the world. Love can’t be bought. Love can’t be forced. Love is a relationship. What I mean by this is that God is love, and it is an amazing relationship. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”  Love is so important in our lives that nothing can take its place. Love is the thing that everyone is searching for whether they know it or not.
 1 John 4:7 “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.”  So what is love? Well in the dictionary it says that love is tender affection for somebody such as a close relative or friend, or for something such as a place, an ideal, or an animal. In today’s society there is only one word for the greatest power in the world. The Greeks had four meanings for the word Love. Storge (Affection) is fondness through familiarity, especially between family members or people who have otherwise found themselves together by chance. Phileo (Friendship) is the love between friends. Eros (Romance) is love in the sense of ‘being in love’ or loving me. Agape (Unconditional Love) is the love that brings forth caring regardless of circumstance. It is easy to confuse love with something dark and sinful. In my opinion love is something special, it is something pure. Most people believe that love is just this feeling you get while with another person, but that’s so wrong. Love is the action you take. There are people out there that do horrible things, unspeakable things and they blame it on love. Hate is the absence of love just like darkness is the absence of light. What I am trying to say here is that God is the light, he is love. It is sad the way children are being treated these days. It saddens me that they aren’t seeing the love they should be growing up with. Love is not this thing that hides in the background, it something that needs to be there every single second of every day. If you never felt the true love growing up, then I encourage you to seek Jesus because His love is forever, and it never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” Let me just say if you’re a Christian out there and struggling to find God’s unfailing love all you have to do is seek him with all your heart. Remember that if you have hate in your heart for someone than that makes you a liar and that you don’t truly know God. At one point I thought it was so hard to keep in line with God in fact I struggled with this for years. It wasn’t until I lost someone a Brother in Christ that woke me up, and made me realize how much I should thank God for His love. Please, if you feel that you can’t seem to stop your bad ways, or you don’t feel God’s presence remember that He is always there. Don’t worry about a thing, but pray about everything. “Love is not a feeling, it’s an Action.”  


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