Love

“He who does not love does not know GOD, for GOD is Love. In this the Love of GOD was manifested towards us, that GOD has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved GOD, but that He Loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” 1 John 4:8-10 NKJV

Jesus did not lay down His life as a sacrifice but as Love, not as an act of love but as Love; he who has ears to hear let him hear!

What Jesus did by leaving His Glory in Heaven and being born in a manger, living as a human, resisting all temptation and overcoming sin in His human life, doing the will of The Heavenly Father and going to the cross having been beaten, scourged and ridiculed, He became sin for us and suffered our judgment, went to the grave and defeated death and hell taking the keys of their domains, He rose from the grave, ascended to the right hand of GOD and is enthroned above all things spiritual and natural in the earth, below the earth, in the seas, and in the heavens, He sent His Spirit to live in all who believe in Him and obey His will; that is not an act of love that is Love.

Consume me Father with Your Love so that I am compelled by Your Love to live and love as You Love!

We speak of GOD’s Love often in the past tense but it is eternal, it has no beginning because GOD has no beginning, it will never end because GOD will never end. John 3:16 says, “For GOD, so loved the world…” This is a statement of His love expressed by Christ being the Son of Man. It’s not His sudden love for humanity or an act of love based on us because He always has and always will Love humanity, He made us in His image after His likeness for a specific reason, so that we could Love Him in return. “For the Love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold all things have become new. Now all things are of GOD, who has reconciled us in Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is that GOD was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though GOD were pleading through us; we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to GOD. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of GOD in Him.”  2 Corinthians 5:14-21 NKJV

Jesus Christ is the focus of GOD’s Love for humanity, Jesus did not learn love He is Love; He learned obedience as the Son of Man through suffering. “So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him: ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten You.’ As He also says in another place: ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek’; who, in the days of His flesh, when He offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His Godly fear, thought He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, called by GOD as High Priest ‘according to the order of Melchizedek,’” Hebrews 5:5-10 NKJV

Jesus’ sacrifice was a sacrifice of obedience born out of GOD’s Love! He was compelled by His own Love. That is what happened to Paul on the road to Damascus, that is what happened to Mother Teresa in 1946, that is what happened to Billy Graham when he was 16, that is what has happen to many unknown Christians since Christ rose from the grave, they are consumed by the Love of GOD – Jesus Christ! It’s not about loving as Christ loved, it’s about being love and Christ is Love! It’s not learned and practiced – it’s consumed and compelled!

Who do you think Holy Spirit is? GOD’s gift and blessing giver, teacher and guide? Yes He is! But what we the Church have forgotten is first of all He is GOD! He is not GOD’s servant to the Church He is GOD: doing His will in the earth as it is in Heaven! In our prayer and worship times we call Him to fill us – we are His temple in the earth from the moment we are born again, He lives in all born again Christians, we need to come filled and ready to pour out. Holy Spirit is not the third person of the GODhead, He is not the third anything – He is GOD! There is only One True GOD and He is The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit!

GOD is everywhere all the time all things exist in Him and for His good pleasure. He hears everything and sees everything, He knows everything, nothing is hidden from Him, He maintains and sustains everything.

If you are not a Christian ask GOD and He will reveal Himself to you – but do not expect it in any certain way – do not put GOD in a box, do no predetermine how or when He will revel Himself to you. When He does reveal Himself to you be prepared because you will never be the same again. Some will resist and some will be consumed and compelled to love and serve Him from that moment on. Start reading the Bible and praying everyday listen for the voice of GOD.

If you are a Christian you should know how to look up scriptures to see what the Bible says. You should be reading the Bible everyday and spending time praying and waiting on GOD.