God and I have been talking about loving people this week. This is one area where I falter greatly. I'm good at loving those that I want to love and fail horribly at loving those that I don't feel like loving. However as a child of God, a follower of Him, I am to be a representation of His love to all, not just to those I feel like loving. So we've been talking about this.
Tonight I was reading in 1 Corinthians 13, the chapter on love. As I read I was journaling all the things that it says about love. As I compiled my list it seems that all the characteristics of love are also characteristic of God. As I continued to read and think about this, it seems that you could interchange love and God in this chapter. Which then makes me wonder: are God and love not the same? Is it not that we are only able to love like this when we have the Holy Spirit inside of us, actually loving through us. It's only the Holy Spirit being the Holy Spirit in us that we ever actually see love like 1 Corinthians 13 is talking about. We only see that love when we see God. God is love. Love is God. I can only love like that if I have God. If I love in my own strength and will, then my love will be envious and jealous and self-seeking and boastful. However if I let the Holy Spirit love people through me, then I can love with a 1 Corinthians 13 kind of love because I don't have love, I have God.
Until then......
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