By Fenter Northern
Love that’s real is very rare,
Naught on earth can compare,
When you have this kind of love,
God smiles on you from up above.
God is love, it is His purity of character. Love is the most sought after thing in the world, even money when it is true love, yet it is extremely elusive. Many never find it. Why? Because it is not cheap. It comes with rigid self-discipline and respect for other human beings. True love is self-suffering to alleviate the suffering of others. It makes great demands on oneself that many are not willing to pay.
The apostle John was known as the disciple of love. As he matured he wrote much on the subject. He said, “He who does not love knows not God: for God is love.” That kind of love is rare indeed and its absence has brought universal anguish to the world. That is as evident as its evidence is infallible proof. When Jesus was asked which the greatest commandment was, He replied, “love.” The reason was, He said, it fulfilled the Law of God as well as the words of the prophets. Genuine love is not left to personal definition that selfishly defines it to suit sensual gratification. God defines it using the pen of the apostle Paul: “If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant, or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” He adds in his letter to the Romans: “Love works no ill will.”
That can’t be improved upon. Ignorance and selfish abuse of love has ended one marital relationship after another. It is magnified in enormity when children are involved and forced to suffer.
Under the sham of love illegitimate children are brought into duel parentless situations wreaking havoc upon their innocent lives. Millions are destroyed on their way to be born.
In the divine plan of marital love, desires can be happily and mutually satisfied with complete joy. Becoming one is not merely an instant act but is a blending that takes place over time. Ask any couple that has been has kept their vows through ups and downs and thick and thin through many years. Blending of minds and merging personalities is the reward of a love that cannot be attained in a short amount of times. It is one of the richest awards of long togetherness where mutual love is shared.
Jesus said, “If you love me keep my Commandments. Satan says, “Love The devil’s art of seduction is to feign love. It yourself at whatever the cost to others. Just do it.” Feigned love is the ugliest way to satisfy fleshly lusts. Only the vilest would demand another to prove their love for them by asking them to do something shameful to them that is against their will. One may find genuine love difficult to find after practicing counterfeit love for so long. The problem is trying to go it alone without accepting the God of love into their life. God will help one to find true love. It begins with confessing without God’s love, one is nothing. If your life is in chaos because you have been feigning love all your life just to get what you want without regard for the welfare of others, but are tired of being a cheat and a loser, you can rise above you’re the repeated tragedies you have been reaping.
It starts by confessing to God that you have been insincere and selfish in trying to find happiness in the flesh while starving your soul. Get you a Bible and read it to learn the way of salvation. Tell the Father you believe that Jesus is love and that you want to serve him in love. This service begins with everyone alike who obeys the gospel’s requirements to become a child of God. These are stated plainly in verses like Acts 2:38; 22:16. When you do this, the New Testament says the Lord will add you to His church. His church is asked to remember the love God had for saving them by meeting each first Day of the week and partaking of the Lord’s Supper. A Christian is happy to put this first in his life and help spread the good news of the love of God by giving a monetary contribution for this purpose. Any preacher of the church of Christ will be happy to help you get started at walking in the light as Jesus is in the light that you might have fellowship with fellow Christians. The God of love will bless you.