*WISDOM FOR TODAY.*
*LOOKING FOR LOVE?*
*Scripture Treasure.*
1 John 4:8 *He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.*
*Insight and Highlight.*
Love is more than attraction and affection. It is a heart. You can not truly love someone you do not love in your heart
If you are looking for true love in a partner or a suitor you hope to find or find you, find God first.
*Scripture Commentaries.*
God's love found us. 2 Cor 5:19 says *"to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the Word of reconciliation.*
The problem we have today is finding love.
God's love is agape: described as self-sacrificing. The love that is best described as *".....in lowliness of mind let each esteem the other better than himself.*
It is best illustrated in John 3:16.
The world has lost this love because it has lost God.
God freely gave us the love we cared less about.
You can not love the way God loves if you have lost the love He freely gave you.
You can not love someone more than God who created him/her. The ability to love someone the way God loves them is to love and fear God Himself
There is no way you can pretend you love that it will not be exposed that you have never loved the one whom you have been pretending to love.
God teaches the love that is from Him.. Love, however, has many definitions today.
This is the result of the fall. There is now lustful love. There is love that is meant to be between family that has majorly turned to rape, incest etc. Major forms of love are
romantic love (eros), platonic love, friendship love (Philia) and familial love (storge), love that tells you to love yourself to the detriment of others (self love), people love you because they are familiar with you or because they depend on you, etc
Today, obssessive love has taken over, and it summarizes the danger of some of these these types of love. A lot of people are obsessed about love that they lose the true meaning of God's love of agape. They are deep in intense infatuation and compulsive behaviors that can cause pain and distress.
Agape love will not cause pain, ref 1 Cor 13: 4-8.
Agape love validates relationship.
Only God has proved to love the unlovable, ref John 3:16. This is unconditional love.
Any other description of love that does not have agape as its foundation can not find any expression on godliness.
When we fail to seek God and Godly lifestyle, we can never be fulfilled in love that finds relationship expression in harmony and oneness.
People hope to find love for themselves.
People seek to find relationship themselves.
Chances of falling into wrong hands are high.
What such people find is love defined by children of men.
There is cupid: the god of love (often depicted as a winged boy with a bow and arrow) that most people celebrate today as Valentine.
Cupid can not validate love. Only Agape could.
Dates and gifts do not validate love when they are not found on the fear of God.
Becareful to look for love. Do not be desperate because you may desecrate it in the process.
Most likely, you may not find it if you are doing it outside God.
Love is not lost. It is not meant to be lost because God is love. God can not be lost. It is we who are lost. He has created us to love one another. Sin has made true love elusive
In a world where people refuse God or lose God, love will gradually, if not, be lost at a faster rate than it is found.
When we lose God, we lose love and the true definition of it in God.
God seeks to find those who love Him because we rejected Him, ref John 14:21, and Psalm 91:14.
Are you looking for love?
Let go of desperation, let God!
*Remorse corner.*
Love is more than beauty. It is a heart.
*Call to Word action.*
*Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised*, Prov 31:30.
*The Christian clarion duty.*
Do not be desperate looking for love. It may be really challenging looking for love, but be patient.
Remember James 1:3-4
*Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.*
*But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing*
*Prayer.*
Lord, l remember that *"Love does not fail"*.
Help me that the love l presently have in my relationship will not fail.
Help those who are looking for love find the love of God in the hearts of the children of men, in Jesus name.
Good morning, and be blessed as you go today.
Celebrate Valentine's today in the agape love of God.
God bless you.
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