REAL LOVE

As Sis and I  mark our 56th years of a happy marriage,  it begs the question, why is this modern world awash in divorce and infidelity???  It is because there is a total misunderstanding of Love.  Everyone believes that love is important, but love is usually thought of as a FEELING. In reality, love is a choice and an action as 1 Cor. 13:4-7 shows.  God is the source of our love.  He loved us enough to sacrifice His Son for us. Jesus is our example of what it means to love; EVERYTHING He did was SUPREMELY loving.  The Holy Spirit gives us the power to love; He lives in our heart and makes us more and more like Christ.  God's love always involves A CHOICE AND AN ACTION.

John says, " God is Love, not Love is God."  Our world,with its shallow and selfish view of love, has turned these words around and contaminated our understanding of love.  The world thinks that love is what makes person FEEL good and that it is all right to sacrifice moral principles and others' rights in order to obtain such "love".  But that ISN'T real love; it is the EXACT OPPOSITE---selfishness .  And God is not that kind of "love". If we truly love GOD we will love as He does.

While being faithful to God and our spouses makes us feel good, it is not the feeling that we must seek but rather, the action that is right and holy.  When we are faithful to God's design for Holiness, which sometimes requires sacrifice, the earthly reward will be manifest.  The ETERNAL reward is everlasting BLISS in the presence of Almighty God our FATHER.  Salvation is FREE and does  not, in any way depend on our actions, our recognition of God's love in that GIFT is our faithfulness to HIS COMMANDS. Our relationship with our HEAVENLY FATHER, DEPENDS on love for HIM as exhibited by our Love for Him by our ACTION OF OBEDIENCE.  LOVE IS ACTION!!!