I am so thankful that God is God.
All that He does is excellent.
He loves each of us and all of us excellently.
I think many use the word love very loosely.
We often think it a big thing to love those who love us,
to treat with kindness those who treats us kindly,
or to forgive those who come seeking our forgiveness.
Than I looked at how God loves.
The Greek term used for God's type of love is (agape.)
This is not speaking of romantic, sexual, friendly or brotherly love but sacrificial love.
We naturally love with expectancy of a return of love, kindness, respect, and or acceptance.
God loves without expectation or return on his investment of love toward us.
We see relationships destroyed because of inability to agape love.
Agape love is true love and is perfectly expressed by the one who is faithful and true.
Our parents, friends, or romantic novels can't teach us agape love without having learned from the one who is (agape) love.
No one out of relationship with God is even able to love in this manner.
Isaiah 55:8,9 " For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither your ways my ways." declares the Lord
9)"As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
Our God thinks and acts grander than we are able to apart from Him.
It is this reason that we think and demonstrate love differently than He.
As I looked at God's definition of love, I realized how much I fail at truly loving.
I Corinthians 13:4 "Love suffers long and is kind, love does not envy, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, 5) does not behave rudely, does not seek it's own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth, 7) bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8) Love NEVER fails."
This is an perfect picture of who God is.
"Lord we need you to perfect our love walk."
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