Showing Love

Showing Love 
  
 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. John 15:12-15

What the world needs NOW is love sweet love!  God's love... unconditionally shown to and through his people.

Day after day each of us is wake up to debilitating news of hatred, violence, financial problems, health issues, and other personal concerns. What can we do to make a difference? What can we do to make a change? Show someone God's love!

Why Show Love?
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:35
Christ showed the ultimate display of love by giving up his life for us. If we claim to be his children, his followers, then why are we not showing love the way he does? Why is it so difficult to forgive, let go, move on and love one another? We make God’s sacrifice worthless when we cannot love our fellow man.  

What Does Love Looks Like?
 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

God is very intentional on how love looks and how we are to show it. There is nowhere in the Bible that gives us permission to hate anyone… His word clearly states that we should hate evil. That includes that that we see, and the evil that we do… Proverbs 10:12 says that Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.

Who Are We To Love and How?
 “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” 1 John 4:8

We are to love everyone… God is no respecter of person, so who are we to be? This refers to the person who hurt you and who broke you down. The person who tried to destroy you and your testimony. The stranger that does not meet your standards and the people in your family. God expects us to love everyone with an AGAPE love. Agape love is unique and is distinguished by its nature and character. Agape is love which is of and from God, whose very nature is love itself. God does not merely love; He is love itself. Everything God does flows from His love. 


Be Blessed, G


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