We are destined to love and this destiny is written within each of us. We can live against this destiny and be unloving but our hearts will never feel true happiness. Loveless equals self-centered and selfish ways. Love equals Christ centered and self-giving. When we choose to live in love we choose Christ and obedience to the Lord. “Love never fails,” for when it finds a way to express itself the result is positive and powerful not only to the recipient but also to the heart of the one giving the love. The pattern for our love is the way that God loves us. He not only loves us for who we are but also for what he sees we can be. Love is creative, it can make the faithless become faithful, the hopeless become hopeful and the loveless become loving. Our journey in life won’t be successful unless it is filled with love. Love makes everything easier, even sacrifice seems enjoyable when made in love. Love can take on the impossible and we find that love can also lighten the load. There is a difference in being drawn by love and being driven by love. The tasks may be the same but sincere love makes everything light and obligation makes the burden heavy. To grow in love is to grow in life and without growing in love we can’t grow our relationship with the Lord. We cannot fail if we love even if our love fails to see the result that we had planned for it. If we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us. Christ can love us into loving others and loving something else more than we love ourselves is God’s greatest joy. My prayer today is that the Lord will help me to love widely and deeply and enable me to express and share love into every area of my life.
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