Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Love, more than a feeling

Today is a day of the celebration of love and all the relationships in our lives that are impacted by it.

For many, love is a feeling. We say things like, “I fell in love with you”, “I feel like I love you” and other such things these are not really love but the fruit of love. Love is not a feeling nor is it an emotion but it is a person.

Here is what the Bible says,

“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. 1 John 4:7, 8

Now anyone can experience the fruit of love because God is here among all of us. Jesus went away to send the helper, the Holy Spirit, to come to us part of the fruit from Him is love. What a gift God has given even those who refuse to acknowledge Him. Even though they don’t know Him they can still know His fruit, love.

Part of the blessing of both the Holy Spirit’s presence on the earth and the measure of faith given to each one of us in Romans 12 is that despite our relationship or lack of relationship with God we can still feel love. He is love and He is here.

The tragedy is hell. Hell is not only a place of torment and darkness but also a place where love has abandoned everyone. Hell is the absence of God with the absence of God there is no love, no compassion, no grace, and no mercy. It is not simply the darkness, fire, and sulfur that make it such a horrible place but no one has ever felt what it is like to be in the absence of God, until hell.

We love because of God. Thank Him today for His love for you and that you can share that love with others.

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