Monday, November 21, 2011

Galations 5:22-23 says But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. The greatest of these is love.  Love is defined as an intense feeling of deep affection. John 15:13 says Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. Just think all the things that Jesus went through for us. He was persecuted. He was mocked. He was beat. He was tortured. He was crucified on the cross and left there to die not for himself but for YOU. He loved you so much that he would die in your place. So that you would have a chance that you could be saved. Imagine that for a minute he loved you that much. What more can we give but to love him back? There is God in every person. What if we loved other people as much as christ loved us? I know that cant fully be done because Gods love is perfect love but even if we loved every person with even a drop of how much God loves you that would be a crazy amount. One way to love God is to love other people. I mean if God is in everyone then what is stopping us? Is it pride, Is it envy, Is it hate, rebellion, is it race, money or judgement? Let me tell you something in the kingdom of God none of that matters. The only thing that matters is if you have loved God with everything that you have in your being. The Bible says to do not be lukewarm. So do not half heartedly love God. Do not half heartedly love people. God loves each and every single person just as much as he loves you and they are a part of who he is just like you. So since there is no difference why act like there is? So try to love people with just a drop of how much God loves you, and think about how much that is. Todays song is called just to be with you by Third day. 


I've heard a tale that a man would climb a mountain
Just to be with the one he loves.
How many times has he broken that promise?
It has never been done
Well I never climbed the highest mountain,
but I walked the hill of calvary

And just to be with you I'll do anything,
there's no price I would not pay, no
Just to be with you I will give everything.
I would give my life away.
Yeaaaa

I've heard it said that a man would swim an ocean
Just to be with the one he loves.
But all of those dreams are an empty emotion
It can never be done.
Well I never swam the deepest ocean
But I walked upon the raging sea

And just to be with you I'll do anything,
there's no price I would not pay, no
and just to be with you I would give everything.
I would give my life away.
Yeaaaa

And I know that you don't understand the fullness of my love
How I died upon the Cross for your sin
And I know that you don't realize how much that I give you
And I promise I would do it all again

Just to be with you I've done everything
There's no price I did not pay, no
Just to be with you I gave everything
Yes I gave my life away.
Yeaaaaa

Just to be with you
Oh, just to be with you (3x)


link to song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt4G4becsWs

1 comment:

  1. I'd like to qualify your definition of love, if I may. Love is not the same thing as emotion and affection. These things fade and relationships based solely on feelings are doomed. Love is laying down your very life for someone else because you identify with them, value them as imagebearers of God, care for their good more than your own, and perhaps because it feels good. "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers." - 1 John 3:16

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