Love Is a PersonÀpẹrẹ

The entire message of God’s written word is based only on one thought, one idea, one Person: Love. 

Love is the reason—the compelling force of our existence, the answer to why we were born. God, who is love, created us from love, for love, to love. It is His greatest command for us—to love Him and others and to experience joyful relationships from that love.

When our loving God offered His only Son as a sacrifice and covering for our sins, it was the greatest expression of His love for you and me. Most of us have experienced this transformational vertical love from God, yet we may have a very difficult time and often miserably fail with our horizontal relationships—our spouses and kids, our parents, our friends, and our co-workers. In our failure to give love to others we’ve lost marriages, friends, jobs, or maybe just our temper. 

The problem is that our love burns out. It wears thin and dries up from feelings that have faded and changed or from painful experiences that have shut us down.

For love to last and not fail, we must have a source of perfect love from which to draw, one that is greater than the depth of our own abilities, feelings, and emotions. If God is love, will He ever run out of love? Is there a limit to His great love? 

The answer is no. And as long as we are connected to that endless Source and because of the magnitude of His love for us, there should never be a time we aren’t able to offer and demonstrate love to others.

Yet, we all fail. Thankfully, when we turn to Him He overwhelms all our failures with His generous grace and mercy, offering us new beginnings. We can move forward from our failures by holding to the truth that God calls us His own. Our weakness is His greatest strength.

As we practice loving others, we may take one step forward and two steps back. But as we continue to make room for Him and remain in His never-failing, eternal, Niagara Falls of love, our response toward others will be to always love, always serve, always give. Our ability to love will never be exhausted because love isn’t just a feeling or an emotion. Love is a Person. He is for us, He is with us, and He empowers us from His great love to love others, far beyond what we think is possible. 

Continue with me in the next few days as we read more about practicing the high calling of loving others from His great love. 

“Our love for others is our grateful response to the love God first demonstrated to us.”  1 John 4:19 TPT

Consider reading today’s scriptures from The Passion Translation (TPT)