Comment: Most
people in the community around us, that is; if they confess a love for God will
reveal that their love is from a religious platform. In other words, they acquired
this love of God from a Catechism, or a system of do’s and don’ts established
from the Commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai. If you are one of these
people, let me ask you a question; Is this the normal way we love people, or
even our pets? Is there a list of prerequisites regarding a marriage of husband
and wife? Does a dog require a set of rules in order to respond to your love for
it? A No! to both questions is correct, even when human intellect (flip-flops)
as it does today on issues of love and life. Love, (unlike Wisdom which is a
learned principle in life) is the main part of our emotional
framework. There are numerous verses of scripture that prove God’s love for you
and me and we will look at them as we search out the subject, but to conclude
this paragraph, Proverbs 8 which is my favorite of Proverbs, reveals this Truth
in verse 17 – “I love those who love Me, and those who seek me early, will find
me.”
Devotional: There is much proof of God’s Personal love for
us, so much in fact; that I do not know where to begin! If I were to do an in-depth
study of this, I could easily say – READ YOUR BIBLE! But I fear that you would
read it from the platforms mentioned earlier; mechanical or man-made religion
is a “great destroyer” of a personal and loving relationship with God. One of
the best epistles to start from in the New Testament is the epistle of Paul to
the Romans and the best chapter is chapter five and of course, verse five.
“Now hope does not disappoint,
because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit
who was given to us.” Well now with this said, we will need to look at the
entire chapter since our Faith, like the Love of God is victorious over all of
life’s issues. Now we could argue from the human intellect, “which came first;
the chicken or the egg” but that would be knowingly ignorant, which is simply
saying “I know the answer but I intend to remain ignorant.”
A little further down in
Romans 5 we read these words in verse 8, “But God demonstrates His own love
toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” God
demonstrated this love to the Jew first (Messiah) and He revealed this love to
the Gentile secondly (Christ) so Jew and Gentile have this in common, in this
if you seriously study Romans 4 and 5 you will see that God’s love is personal
and we should respond to His love with personal faith.
As unbelieving; that is,
lacking faith we are simply without strength, Romans 6, meaning that our
character to love God is out of sync (imperfect) or from the platforms of
religions which fall short of the Perfect love of God which He has already demonstrated.
We must be willing to lay aside all of the encumbrance of ignorance that
separates our personal faith from the love for God. A love already PERFECT in
Christ.
While we were enemies (having
no love or a faulty love), Christ died for US, now for those of us who believe,
we are reconciled back to God through the death of His Son and we shall be
saved by His resurrected life (Romans 5:10). The love of God is revealed
through the death and resurrection of His Son and not through the works of
man-made religions. We cannot re-write the Word of God to fit our fantasy or
fancies, more tomorrow or Monday.
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