Hello friends! Welcome to the first of many Monday posts. This Monday post is designed to create some encouragement for your week. It may be hard getting started in your busy to-dos that the week may bring, but as you read this post I pray that you would take moment to breathe, relax, and know that God’s got your back. Here’s to a great week! If you have any prayer requests, feel free to comment them or email me! I am praying for you ❤
Good Morning!
This morning I want to share about love. You may be asking, isn’t love just for relationships?!?!? The world has given us this false sense of love. After all, God is love. I want to dive into this subject and help teach you what God has been showing me. I am actively learning how to love others in the way God wants us to.
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
1 John 4:16 NIV
Love?
What is love? Is this an earthly thing or a Godly thing? Can we experience Godly love on earth? How should we love one another? The questions go on and on. I personally have had all of these various questions through the past couple of months. Love is something I don’t think we will ever be able to fully comprehend on earth.
God’s love is tremendously huge and is something I am still trying to wrap my head around. God sets the standard for love. He sent Jesus (His only Son) to earth to die on a cross for all of our sins, so we didn’t have to pay for our own sins. He was fully flesh and fully God. He was tempted. He was ridiculed. He prayed for those in need. He did not judge or condemn. He came so that He could save all of us from our evil desires.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:16-17 NIV
His Love is Real
When I first entered into christianity, I never understood why or how God could possibly love the world. I personally was going through a period of depression when I first going to church. I didn’t understand how much love God had for me at that time. I learned that God is literally love. No one or anything else can be love.
I have experienced God’s love multiple times since I started my relationship with Him and it is nothing of this world. Sometimes it is while I am worshipping Him, reading the Bible, walking outside, or simply crying out to Him. In loving others, we meet them where they are and we do not judge. God has not judged us and loves us no matter where we are. As we grow closer to God, we learn about love He has for us and then we are able to practice what He teaches us.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NIV
Before you go…
Life can be crazy and it is so easy to step away and not be focused on everything God has given us. God loves us so much and wants us to be in close communion with Him. As I leave you today, I just want to encourage you with some questions that you can ponder and seek God with as well as a song to help as you go through your week.
- How important is your relationship with God currently?
- Are you allowing God’s love into your life? If not, how could you allow God’s love into your life?
- What can you do to spend time with God?
Achieve the Impossible Today 