Christian Living

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written
Feb 21, 2007

The Lord has been expanding my horizons beyond what I could ever have imagined. He has been filling my heart with so much love for others that sometimes I think my heart will burst.
I am enjoying this journey of love. In retrospect I am feeling like the most love person in the world.
I know this is a God thing!

Love is something the whole world pursues, it is so greatly lacking in this selfish world.
A baby takes in the first kiss from its Mother, and responds to the Mothers cuddles with a gentle coo or a smile.
What happens to that child when he or she grows up when they have never had that nurturing and love of a Mother?
Sometimes they are even abused and neglected, which further deepens that hole in their heart. They have such a great need for love, and sometimes will search their lifetime for that one person to give them what they never had.
Often if they are a girl they will look for love in all the wrong places, or they get married and they look for their husband or wife to fulfill this need that only Christ can fill.
Every young girl dreams of the day when she can walk down the aisle to meet the man of her dreams and they will live happily ever after, but we quickly find out that no human being can give or fill that great need, that vacuum that every human being has for love.
And so what turns out to be their dream turns in to failure after failure.

If it is a boy he might look for that in other relationships or he might put his heart into something he is really good at, or he might seek friendships with the wrong people and find himself heading down the wrong road.
But all are looking and seeking for love, and love can be very illusive when sought from a human being.
God can fulfill that love, he can do it through us as WE let His LOVE flow through us, or He can do it himself, as we
sit at His feet loving Him with all of our hearts.

We see so many marriages on the rocks today, because the fire went out and the two people see each others defects and the love seems to fade away.
Often in marriages one or the other party will be so needy of love they will drive the other out of the home.
No human in themselves can fill that void that the Lord has put there in every soul.
He put that void there and brought about circumstances in your life to bring you to the foot of the cross, so that you would come to Him for ALL OF YOUR NEEDS.

Beloved let me show you the perfect way, the way of love. Every need of love is fulfilled in Jesus Christ! Yes, so true. "For God so loved the world that He gave, His only begotten Son that whosoever would believe in Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life"! hallelujah!

Once we received the Spirit of God in our life when we believe on Jesus Christ and receive Him as our Lord and Savior we receive His Spirit to live within us. God is love, and when we receive the spirit with in us we receive His love.

Love not only becomes a reality but we have the opportunity to become as he is....Love. Oh there is so much more.

Love is an indicator of how much we have grown in the Lord. Love is not something we hang on to, it is something we give away.
I know that sounds strange when you are so in need of love, but I have found that the more love you give away the more you get in return.
God is love, so if we give away love, His love to everyone, He gives us more to give away. It is like a seed, that grows and grows.

I realize that everything about God is abundance, the problem with this concept, is that it is taught in such a way that it breeds selfishness and covetousness.
It is never something you do to get, it just flows naturally. Whether it is love or money, peace, joy, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, when we give it away it comes back in abundance. But we don't do it to get it, we do it to give it away and God blesses it by giving abundance.
It is done in love as a blessing from God.

The more you give love, the more God gives more to give away, it is absolutely amazing! it is the law of sowing and reaping and it is selfishness that uses this principle for self, rather then to bless others with God's love.
We are not to covet things, and we do not give to get what we covet, we just let abundance flow from us, let it be a miracle of love from God to others.

When we cling to things, what we most want seems very illusive, but when we let go and let God as vessels of His love it flows, and it flows and we can't give it all away because we are given more and more to give away.

Mar 4:24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete it shall be measured unto you; and more shall be given unto you.

I truly believe that our life as a Christian and how we lived here on earth will be measured by HOW MUCH WE HAVE LOVED, rather then what we did, or how we did it, whether we became known or how many people we witnessed to, or how much money we gave, but rather how much we loved. You see this in 1 Corithinians 13 the love chapter, for everything is for naught unless we loved.

But it all starts in our relationship with the Lord.
it is amazing what is being taught today.
The one equation missing in the church today is teaching the body that if we are to be the bride of Christ, we need to KNOW HIM.
What person would marry someone they do not know, the relationship never gets off the ground, until you get to know someone intimately.
I know when you first meet someone you look at their attributes, you might look at their family history and what they have done in their life but you do not have a real relationship until you get to know that person personally. Find out what is in their heart, what is most dear to them, what are their concerns, really listening to them. A relationship begins, and love begins to come in abundance as you become more intimate. This is not just in a partner type of relationship in but all of our relationships.
All must be based on intimacy and love.
Especially With the Lord

I find that with my own marriage, my husband loves and me so much when I really listen to him, listen with my heart to what is on his heart.
I know that this is how we need to be with the Lord, and with others then the love really begins to flow, and this is where we see our hearts beginning to open for others.
We can never drum up that kind of love for others, it has to come from the Lord. And that only happens when we open up our hearts to the Lord and He to us.

The word says:

1Jo 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

1Jo 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Wow it says that those who love are begotten of love, and that if we do not love we do not KNOW GOD, and it we love one another , God abides in us, he lives in us, and then His love is perfected in us. all because we love others.

1Jo 4:12 No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

1Jo 4:13 hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

I think this is the most powerful statement and so over looked.

1Jo 3:16 Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

1Jo 3:17 But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

1Jo 3:18 My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

When we begin giving love away, we KNOW LOVE because Jesus Christ laid down his life for us, and so we must lay our life down for the brethren. It is all about GIVING , If when we see our brethren in need, whether near or far away, and we turn away our eyes how does the love of God abide in us?

We cannot out give God, so when we cling to what we have we are turning inward to self, we need to take our self life and lay it at the cross, for we get new life from death, Christ's life in exchange for ours.

There are so many that call themselves Christian because they go to a church, and they said the sinners prayer, but they have not repented of the sins in their life. They go on living as they always lived with a new name "Christian", yet Christ has not come to live with in them because they are not willing to give up their old life of sin.

The word says that when we have of his Spirit we do not sin, or we do not continue in sin, how can we when the Holy Spirit is living with in us.

When we walk in the Spirit we know that we are born of Him because we have of His spirit and he is the Spirit of love.
That means that when the Holy Spirit lives in us, and we obey Him rather then our flesh, we know we are walking in the Spirit.

Jesus Christ came to take away sin, he came that we might live, yet we must die to live. I know that sounds strange but it is true.



Rom 6:2 God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

Rom 6:3 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Rom 6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Rom 6:5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;

Rom 6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

Rom 6:7 for he that hath died is justified from sin.

Rom 6:8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

Let us come before Him and get rid of me, myself and I, that person who is continually seeking for "Self" and separates us from God, it is SIN. Lay it all down at the foot of the cross for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus.
It is in Him, only Him. It is walking in the Spirit not the flesh, and abiding in Him that makes us children of God.

This is what separates us from receiving God's love, when we are walking in the flesh and we are self centered and self focused, love is evasive, because the Spirit of God is not living and moving in us.

Don't be fooled we are saved by grace through faith, but there is now no condemnation to those who do not walk according to the flesh but walk in the spirit.
Again what is flesh? It is self, it is selfishness, it is needing to have your needs met irregardless of anyone else.

SELF is the block to love. Love flows when it comes from the Holy Spirit through us, but if we are worried about self, it is quickly quenched.

Love is the complete opposite, love is not selfish it GIVES, and gives, until it hurts.

It is true that sometimes people can take advantage of us because we are so open in love, but what I have learned is to be obedient, and the Lord takes care of those who do us wrong.
We do not have to do anything but be obedient. We just forgive them and keep our heart open, and just trust the Lord to heal and to work out His will and His way.

I can say that love changes people, it heals people, it moves people into a different realm then they were before they were touched by God's love through us.
I have made mistakes along the way as I began this journey of love, but we learn that this is a journey and we take wrong turns sometimes or we get on the wrong path, or we stumble. We are going to make mistakes along the way but if we didn't it would not be the adventure that love is.

I have to say this has been the adventure of my life, I am about the happiest person that I have ever been, it isn't that I have anything yet, I have everything. Having Jesus Christ the center of my life and the love of my life and living through my life has been the greatest journey of my life.

God is perfecting love in us as we LOVE OTHERS, AS WE LOVE HIM.

Love is always the winner, because when we see the Lord face to face, we will see Him as we are. in LOVE.

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