‘’…he who does not love does not know God because God is love…’’ 1John 4:8 (NKJV)
It is very clear where God stands when it comes to loving everyone around us. The opening scripture makes it clear that the fact that a man is able to love and able to love another is because he knows God. A man that does not know God cannot love. And it also means a man that cannot love does not know God. It is important for us to understand that there are two kinds of love. And they are brotherly love which is called Philia, and the God-kind of love which is called Agape. The kind of love God speaks about here is His kind of love. We know very well the love of man is fickle and it is often influenced by situations and things that happen around us. When someone is good to you, you love them and when they are bad to you, you dislike them.
But this is not the way the love of God is. The love of God is endless and it’s undying, His love never fails. God’s kind of love is unconditional and does not depend on our feelings, passion or emotions towards the person we are expected to love. God is always in love with us and never falls out of it. Even that time when you stayed away from Him, God still loves you, and He always hopes that you will come back to him. The book of 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NKJV) clearly describes what the love of God is like. It says that love “…bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things’’. How believing and enduring you are, will show God how much in love you are. You can’t love your child and disown Him, neither can you love your husband and commit adultery or seek for divorce. No matter what anybody does to you, remember that to love is to bear, to hope, to believe and to endure. Our god is a God of love, so let God’s love strengthen you, to loving everyone without limits, because this is how God requires us to love. When you walk in love like this, you reflect the knowledge you have of God. Halleluiah!
TODAY’S RHEMA
No matter what anybody does to you, remember that to love is to bear, to hope, to believe and to endure!
CONFESSION OF THE DAY
The love of God is at work in me. I don’t love for a season and stop loving. I know how to give love continually just like God. My love is not fickle, my love is strong. I am strengthened by God to continue to love and know how to love in Jesus name. Amen!
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