Love is something we have marveled about since the beginning of time. It has been the subject of countless songs, poems, sonnets and books over the course of history. Hundreds of movies use it as their theme. And, yet, expertise in the subject still seems to evade us. In many ways, we’ve simply “lost that loving feeling.” Spend a few minutes on Twitter or Facebook today, and I’m sure you’ll agree. It’s as if we’ve forgotten what love is, what it isn’t, and how we are supposed to do it. Love is simply another one of those things God created that we have managed to screw up.
What happened? If God is love, we were created in His image to exemplify love to each other, and love is everlasting… just how did we get so far off track? For many of us, we’ve simply lost sight of what the Bible reveals to us about love. The Bible has a lot to say about it, but here are 10 things we can be reminded of about love from the Bible and how to live in response.
To truly experience God’s love in our everyday lives, we must be making ourselves at home in Him, intentionally remaining connected to Christ by regularly remaining in God’s Word and not departing from His teaching,
May we open our eyes daily to the steadfast love God is showing us and choose to abide in that constant, unwavering love. When we do, we will find the Magnificent in our everyday mundane.
When you know that God loves you, life just makes sense. And even when it doesn’t, you’re okay with it, because you know you are loved deeply by God. The lens of love clarifies the confusion of life. Let us continually seek to live life through this lens and no other.
So if you’re going through a rough time in life, don’t immediately try and solve the external problem. Get to the root of the matter, which is that your circumstance are causing you to doubt God’s love for you, and thus you feel anxious. Dwell on the reality that God loves you with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3)
