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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