In my next post, we will discuss what the Word teaches on obeying God’s command to walk in the fruit of love. The rest of this post focuses on God’s love for us. ![]() love others with the same love you have received from God?.believe God loves you personally and intimately?.So, I have three questions for you: Do you… 1 John 4:8 puts it this way: “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” God has shown you His love so that you can love others the same way He loves you. You have to know Him intimately and know His love for you before you can give love to others. Therefore, y our love for people flows out of the overflow of God’s love for you. Instead, I was preventing it from flowing through me to others. The problem was that I wasn’t tapping into His love. The Word makes it clear in Romans 5:5 that all believers have the love of God in their hearts. Truth be told, I did have God’s love in me. Therefore, my life was not built and sustained on the foundation of God’s love for me. I didn’t have the revelation of abiding in the love of God. I didn’t see myself as “the disciple who Jesus loved” (John 13:23). My identity was based on all sorts of things but not on who I was in Christ. I decided there was no point engaging since I was going to fail anyway.įinally, through the Holy Spirit’s leading, it dawned on me that I couldn’t express love in difficult situations because I had not received the love of God for myself. Once God brought someone unloving my way, I subconsciously graded myself as a failure immediately. Although I intended to obey God’s command to love others, I kept yielding to my selfishness and losing my patience with impunity. I failed so many of those love tests that I lost count. In hindsight, I now know He was training me to exercise my love muscles so that I could grow and mature in love. I simply didn’t “waste” time and emotions on the difficult people in my life.Īfter I became born again, God started plowing my heart and I matriculated into the “University of the God-kind of love.” In His infinite wisdom and patience, God repeatedly positioned me in proximity to people who tripped me up. Don’t get me wrong, I was good at loving those who loved me back. Walking in love d id not come naturally to me at all. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.” I John 4:16 NKJV “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us.
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