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As I had wrong understanding of what LOVE meant, so are people today. This wrong understanding of love has passed from one generation to another. And the people of this generation are not spared. Many take infatuation for love, while large numbers of people are driven by lust thinking that they are under the influence of love. Whenever we see two young people dating, we used to think that they are in love. I thought that the way to express love is to ask a lady out as girlfriend, and that the lady involved should reciprocate by accepting the proposal.
I held on to this belief until the bitter experience of a young girl thought me otherwise. This girl was a vibrant secondary school student, full of hope for a bright future, aspiring to study in one of Nigeria universities, and with a great expectation of fulfilling a destiny. This great hope of hers lasted till she suddenly became pregnant for a young boy she professed to be in love with. She then lost her radiant disposition and suddenly became sorrowful, moody and embittered. Her hope was dashed, her expectation of a bright future became uncertain, and her destiny was abruptly aborted. She was ordered by her school authority to leave the school for one academic year to take care of the pregnancy and to nurse her baby. She vacated the school and never returned. She is now a poor peasant farmer in a poor village. What she considered to be love became her ruin. I therefore questioned my previous belief: 'if they were driven by love, why then did it lead them to bitterness?' Think about it!
Love does not mean selling your body for money gratification nor for earning good grade in your course of study. Neither does it amount to sleeping with a prospective employer or your superior officer to earn you employment or promotion. You don't have to sleep with a man to show him that you love him. Love is not immorality! As a young Christian in courtship, if your partner really loves you, he/she will not be asking you to engage yourselves in immorality. But if he/she allows the flesh to push him/her into asking for it, you can help him/her not to fall by turning down the request. Disallowing immoral conduct is a sign of maturity and love. If love is not what majority of people call it, then what is love?
Since the fall of man in Genesis 3, human race has been plagued with sorrow, confusion, bitterness, sickness, infirmity, failure, hard labour, and other such vices. Man navigates through life without direction. But for the purpose of bringing man out of his predicament, God, driven by His love for humanity, sent His only begotten Son to come into the world to save and restore hope to the entire world including you. That's love. Jesus, the Son of God also willingly accepted to come and offer Himself to bear the consequences of your sin and to redeem you from satan and hell through his sacrificial death and resurrection. That also is love. 'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life…Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends... But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.' John3:16; 15:13; Ro 5:8. Can there be a greater expression of love than the one shown to you by the Lord? There cannot be any. Think deep and consider these! The Love that savesfrom satan, sin and hell; the Love that restores peace, hope and joy] the Love that transforms darkness to light, penury to plenty, pains to praises; the Love that heals sick body, broken heart and depressed life; the Love that sets free from oppression, affliction and demonic grip; the Love that gives total liberty and unprecedented freedom. This is the true Love. The one God is asking you to embrace. 'If ye love me, keep my commandments… As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.'
You don't need to be a changed person before you can come to Jesus. He prefers you come the way you are. Just have a change of mind and come to Him. The prodigal son came the way he was - in his stinking state, putting on a torn rag, straight from the pigs' pen, unwashed and unkempt, without minding the onlookers' opinion, - he went to his father and his father eagerly and gladly accepted him without questioning his previous folly (Luke 15:11-24). I may not know your personal aspirations in life, but I have a sure Knowledge that God's Love is a giving Love. When you give Him your life, He will give you a new life. When you give Him your heart, He will give you a new heart. When you turn your situation over to Him, he will give your life a complete overhauling and give you a pleasant situation. This is the reality of the true love that God brought from His bowel of compassion to you. This is the kind of Love I have experienced and it has given meaning to my life. This is the kind of Love God is offering you NOW, and it is worthy of consideration and acceptance. You will begin to enjoy the kind of affection you never experienced before if you can sincerely from the dept of your heart give your life to God by accepting Jesus Christ as your Saviour and Lord. I love you with God's kind of love and I wish you well. Shalom.
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