What This World is Looking For

This world is looking for love; real love.  Failing marriages, families in conflict, broken friendships, people afraid of committing to a relationship, person against person, race against race, nation against nation; we may wonder where is love with all these things happening?  Maybe we have not understood what love is really all about. So often what we only see and experience is a distorted and disappointing kind of love.

WHERE GOD IS NOT PRESENT, LOVE IS EITHER LACKING OR INCOMPLETE.

Many people have moved God so far out of their hearts and lives that they do not have any idea of what real love is. Even though there may be some form of love given and received, it is a poor imitation of the real love that flows from the heart of a loving God.
The scriptures say that “All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful…” (Psalm 25:10a). God is love and all His ways are motivated and driven by His love for us.  He sent Jesus Christ to give His own life on the cross at Calvary to show He truly loves us.

When love seems to be failing…
Has someone’s love failed you? Maybe it’s time for you to know that God’s love is unfailing. You have to understand that there is still Someone Who will not fail you. The Bible says that, “Love never fails…” (1 Corinthians 13:8a). God loves you and He will never fail you.

Yes it is true, God loves people, however many people choose to close their hearts to His love and as a consequence they cannot experience God’s love for them. This is the very reason why this world does not know true love.

In order for us to understand what love really means, we first have to receive it from God. Himself.    We must acknowledge that our love is imperfect, conditional and limited. We have to let God into our hearts and allow Him to fill us with His love.  We have to let go of our pride and selfishness and ask God to create in us a new heart that will be able to love as He does.

Unlike human love, God’s love is unfailing, unconditional and unending.  It is unbelievable!  You have to experience it to believe it.  If we are going to know the way of real and lasting love, we have to know the ways of a loving and faithful God as we surrender our hearts and lives to Him.

Bro. André Canlas

_______
Published on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 at 1:45 am under Soul Food. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.