God's Children Should Love

Who you please is proof of who you love.

1 Peter 1:22 You were cleansed from your sins when you obeyed the truth, so now you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters. Love each other deeply with all your heart.

John 13:35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

Romans 5:8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

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There have been a lot of books written about love, from romance novels to books on how to improve your love life, there probably isn't another topic that has been written about. Of all of those books there is one that stands above the rest as the greatest love story.

We have all heard that phrase "God is love" but have you thought about what that means? God is so full of love that he is called love, he is the source of love and everything that he does is done out of love. (1 John 4:8)

From the book of Genesis all of the way to Revelations the Bible is the story of God's love for his creation. Each day of creation he paused and checked it out and said that it was good, he loved the work that he did that day, he especially loved the work that he did when he created man and woman. God spent time with Adam and Eve because he loved them and he desired for them to know him and to know his love.

Exodus 15:13 “With your unfailing love you lead the people you have redeemed. In your might, you guide them to your sacred home."

Moses and the nation of Israel sang those words to God after he delivered them from Egypt, he proved to them that he loves them and that he has a plan for them, just as he does for all of his people. god's people don't always have the easy life but that doesn't mean that God has failed to love them as he promised.

Have you experienced God's love?

Ephesians 3:17-19 Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. 18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. 19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

If we love ourselves then we will live for ourselves, if we love our spouse then we will strive to please them. If we love God then it will show in how we live, Jesus told us that the proof that we have experienced God's love is that we will live to please him, it will be very obvious if you love him or if you do not. (John 14:21-24)

God is love, he loves everyone of us, the question is: Have you experienced God's love? There could be no sadder existence than the one that doesn't know that they are loved by their creator. God's children are on a mission to make sure that everybody knows about this love. We should show love the way that God has showed love to us.

Lamentations 3:22 The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease.

Thank you for your love that never ends Lord! Help me to love big so that people will know that I am your child.

Celebrate Crazy Love Day

 Everyday should be crazy love day.

Romans 12:9-13 Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.

Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.

Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically.

Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying.

When God’s people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality.

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The world thinks that they have love figured out. If you ask them to show you an example of love you will probably hear them talk about Anthony and Cleopatra or Romeo and Juliet or maybe the Cleavers will come up. 

They think that they know real love but they don't know about the love that a child of God has. We have been loved in a bigger and crazier way than anybody else could love.

“For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."

As a child of God, I have been shown the greatest example of love that man will ever know, Jesus took the death penalty for me even though I wasn't even his friend. The family of God knows what love is and they have no excuse for not doing it, I need to make love a verb.

I need to show genuine love with the right attitude. If you are doing something good for somebody and you aren't enjoying it then you are probably not doing it in love, most likely it is legalism, doing it just because you are supposed to.

Go out and love like crazy today!

Love Is the Greatest

The greatest is love.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.

If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.

When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.