Love. Everybody wants it, craves it, lives for it. We all want to receive love and to love in return. It’s human nature.
What if I told you that you are loved, all the time, by a glorious and powerful Creator? And that in turn, you should love Him with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul? Now, I’m sure this seems like common knowledge to all of the Christians in the world, even this one, but how often do we act on it? How often do we take the time to tell God that we LOVE Him, I mean REALLY love Him? Do we glorify Him as much as we should? Do we stand in awe at His love and His power the way we should? Do we praise Him and stand thankful for this life that He has gifted to us?
I know that, as a very humble, very imperfect Christian, I can answer “no” to more than one of these questions. I’m sure that we all can.
Now, how about this: How often have you stood in front of someone that you love, whether it be a husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, fiancee, whatever, and basked in their love and adoration? How often have you praised them and put them on the highest metaphoric pedestal you could find? Do you put them above everything else in your life because you are blinded so much by love? Or how about in the presence of someone very famous? Do you absolutely lose it because you are in shock over another human being? We are ALL only human and God is the only one greater than all of us. We are all His children, equally so, and the only being we should be fawning over is our Maker.
Don’t get me wrong, I am just as guilty as the rest of us. I have loved with everything I have, and I gave none of it to God, when I should have been giving it to Him first. Then I should have been thanking Him for giving me such a wonderful gift with another human being. Instead, I just took it for granted, and then before I knew it, it was gone. I was lost and confused. I was left with a heart full of love and no one to give it to, or so I thought.
I finally realized I needed to give my love to the One who deserved it the most, and in return, He fills me with love. More love than I could ever imagine. Loving Christ has taught me that love is infinite, just like His love for us, His children. He will bring people in and out of your life for a purpose. He will allow you to love and to grow and to hurt so that we may grow closer to Him. So that our LOVE may blossom in Him. This love in Him, is REAL love. The truest love we could ever experience. With that real love, comes the ability to truly love others. Though I am FAR from getting this real love right, I am trying to make it a part of my everyday.
The Lord is doing amazing things in my life and I know He will in yours. It’s His plan, and in His time.
Feed Yourself, Girl! with REAL LOVE. You will be amazed at how much love you receive in return.
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
feed yourself, girl 