Love changes Everything

My Friends,

Hi! It’s good to be back and we’re headed towards the most cheerful seasons of all, Christmas. It’s all about the memories, isn’t it? This is why we strive so hard to get it right. Christmas is not about getting it perfectly done as an advertisement would have it stated, or a movie that you’ve seen, but it’s about sharing all the love we have with one another. This God of love has sent His one and only Son, to give us a hope and a future. This season, marks the birth of Jesus, it’s also a birth of a promise that was made by God and was accomplished. We celebrate that promise. We celebrate Love, we celebrate all the HOPE and Joy and Peace. We celebrate God.

I wish you God’s love and all the good cheer. Happiness always!

                                  With all my love,

                                       AnitA.

Give thanks to the Lord. For HE is good: His love endures forever.  Psalm 107:1

It is hard to define love, in just a sentence. That would be no justice at all. I guess the best place to start would be in chapter I Corinthians 13.

“Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, doesn’t have a swelled head, doesn’t force itself on others, isn’t always “me first,” doesn’t fly off the handle, doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, doesn’t revel when others grovel, takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, puts up with anything, trust God always, always looks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the end. Love never dies...” I Corinthians 13:4-8

Take the first part of that verse, love never gives up. I ask God to enable me to never give up. He is the only one who can empower me to do so. Then I stand on His Word. Philippians 4:13, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.

God loves us unconditionally. That means His love is without condition, His love is not according to us but according to Him. In 1 John 4:8 we know ‘God is love’ and that true love is only seen in us when we imitate God, by imitating Jesus. The Bible calls us to love:

The Bible calls us to love God completely. A man asked Jesus what was the most important rule for life. Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with your whole mind. Matthew 22:37-38. Once we learn to love God with all our heart, soul and mind, there will be a greater intensity in our love toward others, even toward those who are very difficult to love. If we love only to be loved in return, we will often be disappointed. 

The Bible calls us to love even our enemies. In Matthew 5:44, Jesus said, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. It takes supernatural love to love those who choose to make our lives miserable.

Jesus presents a clear pattern for love. As the Father (God) has loved Me, so have I loved you. . . . Love each other as I have loved you. John 15:9-12. God's love flows through Jesus Christ, to us, and this love is the source of real joy in our lives. As we follow Jesus' teaching, we will have Jesus' love-a love that can flow through us toward others.

REMEMBER: Our love is not to be focussed on ourselves or on what makes us look good in the eyes of others. True love is love focussed on others. As we love others, we are immeasurably blessed ourselves. Remember:

• Love is unconditional – No give and take.
• Love is to eternity - Always and forever. No second thoughts.
• Love is sacrifice – where you focus on the good of the other. Less of me and more of you.

CONCLUSION: It may seem funny, how life just falls in place somehow. There are times that we struggle, with love. We as human beings, often try to change people we love. We want them to be what we think they need to be. Never once does it occur to us, it’s we that need to change. If and when we truly love, the change will occur. Love is not forceful. Love does not seek its way. Love, changes everything. Love is God, and God brings about the required change. We need to trust in God.

PRAYER: Father, my prayer to you, is let every heart that yearns for love find their way to you. This I ask in Jesus, name. Amen.