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Love-Inspirational-Daily
“Whoever could become a loving person who had never before experienced love in their life?”
If someone was neglected as a child, they will hunger for love and appreciation later. And it’s only natural to seek to get it from other human beings. But what will happen if they do not get the love he or she urgently wants to have? Won’t they end up having doubts about the meaning of life and finally end up in despair?
It is crucial to know that God loves us. The Bible writes about it and if we believe that which is written IS true, we could be the lucky ones. However, I think we must be careful not to believe that “knowing” this truth remains as a mere repeated reminder in our minds. What I want to emphasize here is that heart and mind should always be found together, and if we are not FEELING the LOVE of God, then there is something missing that could give us the real power to love others even though they don’t love us, neglect us, or reject us. This selfless love only works when we have been comforted by God’s Spirit for not being loved by others while we are at the same time tenderly and passionately loved by Him.
God is love, and if we ask Him consistently, He can’t help pouring His essence (love) into our hearts (Rom 5:5) because He can’t deny Himself. He can’t stop loving any human being He ever created, since as soon as God had created man and woman in his own image (!), “God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” (Gen 1:31 ESV). Very good!
In my opinion, God’s creation is still very good and the fact that God Himself loved looking at a man and a woman more than at animals, plants, stars etc. gives us our greatest worth. We are precious to Him! The sin that separated God and man and thus finished the spiritual relationship between the Creator and His creatures did not end His love.
Jesus became man because of His love for His Father AND for us. Jesus is God, too. Jesus is love, too. And caused by His love He prepared for sinners the way back into a loving relationship with God.
“Why?”
Once again: God is longing for us because He loves us so much. Always! Jesus is not the reason that God loves us but simply the only way home. Could it be possible or is it too good to be true that He made us wonderfully … be it him or her, plus me and plus you?
I thank God that it is indeed sooo good but true, too … that He loved us before the ages began although He knew that His wonderful creatures would be sinners. Phew!
Therefore, let’s try to not always look at our sins nor at the sins of others. Instead, let’s look at Him who looks through the eyes of love…
“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” (1 Pt 4:8 ESV)
[Although I did not count how often I used the word “love” (Ha! You see, again) – I am afraid it was abundantly enough, wasn’t it. 🙂 ]
Entering the Promised Land 
Susanne,
As I read your blog this great passage written by the apostle of love, John, came to mind…
My dear friends, we must love each other. Love comes from God, and when we love each other, it shows that we have been given new life. We are now God’s children, and we know him. God is love, and anyone who doesn’t love others has never known him. God showed his love for us when he sent his only Son into the world to give us life. Real love isn’t our love for God, but his love for us. God sent his Son to be the sacrifice by which our sins are forgiven. Dear friends, since God loved us this much, we must love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is truly in our hearts. God has given us his Spirit. That is how we know that we are one with him, just as he is one with us.
(1 John 4:7-13 CEV)
Your friend and loving brother (because of Christ in me),
Michael
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Fits like a glove, Michael. Thank you, my brother.
By the way, the apostle of love was my favorite apostle and his gospel and letters my favorite read in the past until I learned to appreciate all the other biblical authors just the same as John.
Much love,
Susanne
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WOW. that hit the nail right on the head.. those who were rejected and neglected are always looking for love. although, more often than not in ALL THE WRONG PLACES. I always would read in the Word How Abba loved me.. And knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that His word was true and he could never lie..However my heart was so crushed and fragmented from all the abuse that It just landed on a stoney heart.. and never brought forth any fruit, until that day in DECEMBER 23 2005 when I was living in the streets on skid Row in Los Angeles and Abba sent an angel to speak the word to me as I lay begging on the sidewalk..a mary Magdalene.. who had been in bondage to heroin and other things for 35 years.. something broke thorought that day. and all my chains fell to the ground. He brought out with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm.. AND HIS LOVE FOR ME PIERCED THROUGH FOR FIRST TIME.. now it has been 8 years and my life has changed so much.. IT IS HIS LOVE THAT HEALED ME.. I Was the lamb that always wandered.. but His love broke my leg.. and now I stay close by His side.. YESHUA MY BELOVED SAVIOUR..
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Thank you for commenting and for perfectly reviving my article with your touching narrative, Ruth!
I am so sorry to hear what you had to go through in your life, however, I am glad that our Beloved, YESHUA, indeed saved you and that you already experienced His healing hand which always works through Him loving us FOR REAL.
May God continue to bless you beyond imagination, my dear sister.
Much love,
Susanne
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I am convinced that loving people who are desperate to be loved is God’s ministry. In Mark, Jesus said the greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all of your soul, with all of your might and with all of your being. And the second is like unto it, love your neighbor as yourself.
But agape is what every person is driven to seek. Every person wants to be loved, respected and accepted by others. The inability to find the same leads to destroyed lives, alcoholism, drug abuse, wanton living, and even suicide.
I wondered to myself, how do we get there? Ephesians 3:14 – 19 says…… For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; the you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height … to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
As we personally and corporately call out for God, as desperate people hungering and thirsting for more of Him, He will respond to us. Let us cry out to God, broken by our sins, cleansed by blood of Jesus Christ, built up in our most holy faith and empowered by His Holy Spirit, carry on the ministry of Jesus Christ, the ministry of demonstrating how much God loves His created ones.
If we do not yearn and pray and expect God to stretch out His hand and do the supernatural, it will not happen. That is the simple truth of the matter….What we really lack is the passion to call upon the Lord until He opens the heavens and shows Himself powerful…..
God will manifest Himself in direct proportion to our passion for Him. The principle He laid down long ago is still true…..”You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.” Jer. 19:13
So….let us pray!…….and give the love He so freely has given to us…to all others.
….peace.
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Amen! I wholeheartedly join you in the prayer you phrased in your comment. Also, the Scriptures you quoted are dead on. Actually, you succeeded in answering the question of “How do we get there?”, that is, to selflessly loving others as Christ loves us. Beautifully written!
And yes, “What we really lack is the passion to call upon the Lord until He opens the heavens and shows Himself powerful”.
May we be brim-full with agape and passion so that we can intercede and stand in the breach before God for those who do not know Him yet (Ez 22:30).
Thank you, Duane.
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These are great revelations in this thread on the love of God in and through us. Jesus’ final prayer as recorded in John chapter 17 was that we who are His would be one just as He and the Father are one, “In in you and you in me that they might be one even as we are one…”
The Spirit then led me to this passage in 1 John 1:5-7 about walking in the Light just as Jesus is in the Father’s Light… it is here that we who are His can have true fellowship. Fellowship with the Father and the Son is both “vertical” and “horizontal.” We love Him because He first loved us… and in my case it was this great fellowship of love among some newly born, spirit filled young Jesus People in 1970 that reached out an touched my hard cold heart. Jesus’ prayer in John 17 was fulfilled…”That the world might KNOW that you did send me.” Light and love in the Father and the Son shining out from us… THAT is the gospel of Jesus Christ!!!
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Yes and amen, Michael. Thanks so much for weighing in!
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Amen. “Intellectual love that cannot be experienced” is not the love of God.
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Yes, I agree with you, Laura. Thank you for reading and commenting (AND for your +1 on my G+ account 😉 ).
God’s love and every blessing to you!
Susanne
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