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Greater than LOVE
When I was little I remember looking around during a
festivity, we had a large family, so everyone behaved kindly and
joyfully, I guess I've always been the kind of person that wonders if
something is the way is supposed to be, and this case was no
difference, so I asked myself the question, is there something greater
than love? because it really seemed to me that was the end goal; think
about it, grandpa working all the time, grandma cooking all the time,
everybody else working all the time, of course as a child sometimes we
don't know or comprehend that people work to sustain themselves, pay
utilities, rent, whatever, but the festive environment really made a
match in my mind with love, simply because everybody was happy, to put
it in simple terms, who wants to be sad, after all? After all
that work!
Well, I believed the Lord allowed or placed even the
question in my mind, for the purpose of seeking Him, now I know that
God is Love and of course, there's nothing greater than God, therefore
nothing greater than love, the question has been answered and guess
what, it has been answer to my delight, because I can't think of any
other way to, can't even find the word, enjoy life, see! The word
"enjoy" is connected to love, and my whole being associates joy with
the best possible condition of human existence, for intance, you have a
headache, well that's pain! and that's no joy! You see my point,
who wants to be in pain, suffering, it's sort of like a timeline, on
one side pain, extreme pain and death, on the other, joyfulness,
rejoicing and love, and more life, and more joyfulness, and the cycle
repeats.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:8 (KJV)
Throughout
the years I came to learn another truth about love, and that is that
ONLY LOVE CAN PROTECT LIFE, for some that maybe obvious, but it took me
a while to come to that conclusion, so now I share it with you, in case
you might be wondering how so? Well, think about how fragile life
is, if it's not cared for, it perishes, it happens to plants, babies,
even machines, and care is a branch of love, joyfulness is a branch of
love, basically anything that maintains the life of something, anything
that contributes to the extension of that life is considered love, so
there you have it, not only there's nothing greater than love, but only
love can protect life, I did find that very interesting and it really
gives me assurance, knowing that since God is love, then no better
place to seek protection, under the canopy of His wings.
O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them
which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children
together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye
would not!
Matthew 23:37 (KJV)
Although
the above verse may seem out of joint, it's not, because the Lord
Jesus, being God in the flesh, was speaking in regards of protecting
Jerusalem, but, in particular and perharps in regards to the attack of
the Romans in 70 AD, for us today, the result of situations, and
history that's written in the Bible, are there to build us up, to
encourage us and even to correct us, and I almost forgot, to remove our
fears, this last one is particularly important because we are fearful
people, perhaps worst than chickens, if you were to think about the
whole comparison proportionally, in many ways, we are what we eat.
But the Lord is merciful and gentle with us, so I want to pass
that onto you, just as the Lord Jesus said, "Be not afraid!", so I say
to you, don't be afraid, of the truth of course, be afraid if you do
something wrong, as in illegal.
I also want to leave you with
this understanding that I believe the Lord gave me one day, talk about
connecting the dots, I was thinking "God is love", and another thought
was "God is perfect", then it came to me, God's love is Perfect, so
that in itself was a revelation to me, but then I remember a verse that
I hard previously read, which said "perfect love casts out fear", in
conclusion, being under God's wings not only protects us, but removes
fears and that to me has made a huge difference, doesn't mean I don't
get fearful at times, but it does mean that regardless of the
circumstances, His perfect love remains available to me, but I have to
come in His terms, through truth and humbleness, that was encouraging
to me, and I hope it was to you.
There
is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear
hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4:18 (KJV)
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