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Love of God ...
Monday, Feb 3, 2014. If you search for the word “love” in the English Standard Bible, you find 641 hits. It is astonishing, how important the term is in this book, which has been written over a time period of 2000 years, from around 1500 BC to 100 AD.
Love, love, love …
In 1 Peter 1, 22 we read: 22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God.
The love which the bible speaks about is a love which comes from God. It is a love which is pure in its motives. It is a love which is not driven by its own needs, but by the needs of the other person. It is a love which comes from truth, the truth of the Lord!
Too often, we confuse desire of something with love. We think that if we desire some other person, his or her beauty, that would be love. But it is not the love of the Lord. His love is much wider, much deeper, much better grounded. His love sees the other person, not just the outside.
Invitation to his love …
Also, we often confuse love with need. If we need someone, that is not love. We cannot be alone. Our life feels empty - and there is someone else who could fill it. That is need. But love is much wider and much deeper. It supersedes our needs.
God himself wants to fill our main human needs. He loves us. He supports us. He is there, day by day! He puts purpose into our life, he wants us, he guides us. Only when we have him, we can be free to love others. Only with his spirit filling us, we will be able to grow our own love from pure need and pure desire to something which comes from the Lord and his eternal wisdom and truth!
God invites us today, to enter the realm of his love. We are invited, to trust our life into his hands. If we feel week and vulnerable, he can protect us. If we feel useless and small, he can use us and fill our life with a purpose we could never even dream of without him. Let us come to his love this morning, and every morning from now on … ! (Roland Potthast) ... more texts