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Love never grows tired of showing itself to you. It's so much more than just a word or a feeling, it truly is an action that never gives up. Love keeps giving with no conditions attached. 1 John 4:8 tells us that God is love, "Whoever does not love does not know God..."
God didn't just say it, He didn't just feel it, "For God so loved the world..." He showed it. John 3:16
God has shown us through Jesus and His time on earth, that love is more than just a word or a feeling. Love, "always perseveres," (1 Cor. 13:1-6) It never expects anything in return.
I believe society confuses love and lust. Love doesn't say things like, "If you treat me right, than I'll treat you right..." or, "we love each other now, so let's have sex, Now." There's not dissipation of feelings, no infidelity. God's love is patient, kind, and it always protects. It is not rude and it is not self seeking!
I don't know if you're in a relationship, or in and out of one, but don't be fooled by feelings that can fade, or words said by people who don't really know the meaning of them. If love will wait, forgive and understand, without condition, then true love will remain. It's the greatest of all human qualities, but if it doesn't look like Jesus than it's not love.
The outward appearance of someone wouldn't be the only thing that attracts you. Look how Jesus came into, and then left this world. Neither one was attractive. Only how He loved and treated people, even His enemies, is what was, and still is so attractive. A love like this is what this world is in such need of.
We need to pray and ask God everyday to show us how to be the proof of His love. If we claim, "to live in Him," we must walk as Jesus did, (1 John 2:6). All of us, and every relationship we have is bankrupt without this kind of love.
"Let my love look like You and what Your made of. How You lived, how You died, LOVE IS SACRIFICE," not just a word. John 15:13.
Let us be His hands and feet,
Kim
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