Love Part 4: The Best Love
February 25, 2018
Love
Part 4: The Best Love
“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.” 1
Corinthians 13:4-6
Here we are. The final week of the series. I can’t believe how fast this month has gone
by. It feels like yesterday when I sat
down and wrote the first part, and now here we are at the very end. If you haven’t been keeping up, here are the
first three parts:
I decided that I didn’t want to spend
a whole post talking about everything going on in the world right now. I even wrote a whole post about it that was
separate from the series but decided not to post it because I want this blog to
be a place that’s not full of sadness and negativity. I think it is important that we do recognize
all the tragic events that happen, but we cannot let those things control our
everyday lives.
So that’s why I’m here today. I’m here to tell you about a love far greater
than anything else we’ve talked about in this series. It’s a kind of love no one else can give you,
because it does not come from another human.
No, this is God’s love and it’s a way no other person can love. Because we (humans) are imperfect. We anger, we hurt, and we have feelings. Sometimes our pride can get in the way of our
ability to love and help others.
See, God doesn’t have those problems.
He is fully committed to loving us no matter what our faults are or how many
times we’ve sinned. God loves you even
when you sin. Since He is our father, he is disappointed when we do wrong
things, but God always forgives. In
Romans 5:8 it says “But God demonstrates his own love for us while we were
still sinners, Christ died for us”.
When you consider yourself a pretty
good kid, you never think you might do something to change that. When I was younger I used to laugh and say
“never!” when asked about doing things other kids my age were doing. Then I discovered the internet. I didn’t realize exactly how far off I really
had gotten until about a year ago when it was too late and damage had already
been done. Damage to that good kid I
always thought I was. The thing is, when
you think so highly of yourself, you don’t really plan for situations where you
might be faced with a dilemma and end up compromising your morals.
When I went through what was probably
the hardest time in my life so far last summer, I was hurting and I was also
really lonely. It didn’t feel like the
people around me cared, and I was too ashamed to talk to anyone about it, so I
just kept to myself. And then one night
I just started praying, letting out everything I was feeling and talking to God
like He was my best friend. I asked for
forgiveness, I asked Him to make me strong again, to help me through what I was
going through. And He did. That’s how I became so connected with my
faith again and ever since then my life has changed. A good change.
See, people will always come in and
out of your life. People will hurt you,
be angry at you, and let you down. But
no matter what the situation is, you can always depend on God. He is there for you, He cares about you, and
He will forgive you. If you don’t have
Jesus in your life right now, let me just ask, what are you doing? What are you waiting for? If you’re roaming the earth looking for this
kind of love that I just told you about, I’m just going to help you out and
tell you that you won’t find it until you know Jesus. Because God made humans to be imperfect. We fail, we make mistakes, even
Christians. A Christian isn’t just like
a favored student, a Christian is someone who knows what they have when they
have God. And if you don’t have God, you
won’t ever know what the perfect kind of love looks like because this is not a
kind of relationship you can have with another human, it’s something that’s
only possible when you have God.
“For God so loved the world that he
gave is one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but
have eternal life.” John 3:16
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