Love God's Way

Amen!!!! Love God's way is far different from love man's way.

Love God's way is based on selflessness, love man's way is based on performance and dedicated to only loving those who enhance the one who wants to appear special.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

"4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

When we love someone and they have fallen into sin we grieve for them and approach them to help them see their need for repentance. We never gloat over the sins of others.

When we love someone we quickly restore them when they are repentant, rejoicing in their confession and cleansing. 1 John 1:9

When we love someone we rejoice when good things happen to them or when they do good things.

When we love someone we weep with them in the hard times, over the difficult people in their lives, and bless them by comforting them.

Those who do not love don't care what their friends are going through as long as it doesn't bother them.

Those who do not love even feel a sense of glee that someone has fallen or that they have not received a blessing.

Those who do not love demonstrate everything the opposite of what God said love was in the 1 Corinthians 13 passage about love.

My guess is that all of us know what love looks like when we see it even if we don't know the verses from the Bible.

God placed it in every human being to need love, to give and receive love. As this apostate age progresses toward the tribulation we are experiencing far less love than ever before. Everyone not only does what is right in their own eyes they hate anyone who does not validate or agree with them.

Learning for the unloving person is impossible, when self is on the throne no one else's input is received with joy, it is spurned and rejected because it is not their own idea. Truth does not matter to the unloving person, only self-promotion.

We can only learn and love when we are humble and receptive to the input of those around us. When we know we are not perfect we can enjoy the thoughts of others, their ideas, and their desires without feeling attacked.

The longer I live the more God's love makes sense and the less man's love does not make sense. We gain far more peace and joy from being loving and none of these things from being unloving.