LOVE DEFINITION – IS GOD: FOR GOD IS LOVE!
“He that LOVETH not knoweth not God; for God is LOVE . . . 16 And we have KNOWN and BELIEVED the LOVE that God hath to us. God is LOVE; and he that dwelleth in LOVE dwelleth in God, and God in him” 1 John 4:8, 16.
There’s no better way to define LOVE other than God. God is the EMBODIMENT of LOVE, hence LOVE is God and God is LOVE. Genuine LOVE is God and experience in Him. Genuine LOVE which ONLY is of God MAKES WHOLE and PERFECT (mature, complete) people. Any other definition may be attributed to the EXPLANATION of love not the DEFINITION of LOVE.
There’s the need to know and understand the fullness of this genuine love of God that’s to be expressed in us and through us in Christ Jesus. For the earnest desires to know this love of God in Christ Jesus that transcends and supercedes and surpasses the human senses of knowledge, Apostle Paul took it upon himself to earnestly PRAY for the Ephesians Church about it – his prayers was for them was and is, that the Church might come to KNOW and EXPERIENCE the God’s genuine love that’s in Christ Jesus. He also indicates the need for us as a Church through God’s given grace and ministerial Office gifts, both to come to KNOW and be speaking forth in our onward and outward trajectory, the TRUTH, in the LOVE of God in Christ Jesus, as we live in it and through it by FAITH in God in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
“For this reason [grasping the greatness of this plan by which Jews and Gentiles are joined together in Christ] I bow my knees [in reverence] before the Father [of our Lord Jesus Christ], 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth [a]derives its name [God—the first and ultimate Father] . . . 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith. And may you, having been [deeply] rooted and [securely] grounded in love, 18 be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love]; 19 and [that you may come] to KNOW [practically, through personal experience] the LOVE of Christ which far SURPASSES [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be FILLED up [throughout your being] to all the FULLNESS of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself] . . .” Ephesians 3:14-20/Amplified.
“Yet grace [God’s undeserved favor] was given to each one of us [not indiscriminately, but in different ways] in proportion to the measure of Christ’s [rich and abundant] gift . . . 15 But SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE [in all things—both our speech and our lives expressing His truth], let us grow up in all things into Him [following His example] who is the Head—Christ . . .” Ephesians 4:7-16/Amplified.
BELOVED, KNOW THAT THE ONLY GENUINE LOVE IS OF GOD AND GOD IS LOVE – DON’T MISTAKE LUST FOR LOVE!
Hence in today’s world and in most ways of doing life, people squandered in LUST and still thinks they are in LOVE or in the LOVE OF GOD. Sorry, ‘LUST’ is not ‘LOVE’.
“. . . GOD IS LOVE . . .” (1 John 4:8, 16).
In that God is Love and sees, Love sees also and it’s not blind as religion and society have taught us. God is not blind to issues but decides on issues with seeing eyes hence one should not be blind to life issues and in making decisions on it; for it’s harmful to only realise and regret afterward with blame or fault-finding excuses.
You can exercise and enact genuine LOVE by FAITH in Christ Jesus, for FAITH works by LOVE.
I pray that you will be real and exact in LOVE when making decisions not blind to it, and to avoid regrets afterward.
May every grace and BLESSEDNESS abound more and more in everyway in Christ Jesus’ stead to make you LOVE Scripturally.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“He that LOVETH not knoweth not God; for God is LOVE . . . 16 And we have KNOWN and BELIEVED the LOVE that God hath to us. God is LOVE; and he that dwelleth in LOVE dwelleth in God, and God in him” 1 John 4:8, 16.
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the LOVE of God is SHED abroad in our HEARTS by the Holy Ghost which is GIVEN unto us . . . 8 But God COMMENDETH his LOVE toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:5, 8.
“For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but FAITH which WORKS by LOVE” Galatians 5:6.
“Herein is our LOVE made PERFECT, that we may have BOLDNESS in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no FEAR in love; but PERFECT LOVE casteth out FEAR: because FEAR hath TORMENT. He that FEARETH is not MADE perfect in love” 1 John 4:17-18.
“From whence come WARS and FIGHTINGS among you? come they not hence, even of your LUSTS that WAR in your members? 2 Ye LUST, and have not: ye KILL, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye FIGHT and WAR, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ASK, and RECEIVE NOT, because ye ASK amiss, that ye may CONSUME it upon your LUSTS” James 4:1-3.
Further Scriptural Reading: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI