What's Love Got To Do With It (Part 2)

I have recently been learning about the grace of God. I have come to understand that love is the most powerful thing on the face of the earth. Not guns, not missiles. not atomic weapons. They can all cause massive destruction but in the end, they really cannot cause change like love has the potential to. Like I have said before, I'm not talking about Hollywood's portrayal of love, but the real thing.

I once read a quote by someone who said that all the major wars and troubles have been caused by religion. While I believe that is untrue, I do not dispute the fact that there have been some wars fought based on the premise that they were "Christian" wars. But a war that is unleashed in the name of someone who is called the Prince of Peace cannot be a true representation of him. I believe that there would be less wars if there was more love. But unfortunately, we don't know what love looks like so we can't recognise it when we see it. We can't even express it because we have never felt it ourselves.

Love is not about who is right or who is wrong. It's not about what we deserve or don't. It's not even about why, who or what. It just simply ...is.  When you desire the good of someone other than yourself, it shouldn't be because of something they've done or have don't it should be because you love them. The Bible tells us that we love God because he first loved us. We are only able to love Him because he showed love to us first. His love was and is unconditional and without any strings. We didn't do anything to earnn it. In fact, we were quite unloveable. But it spite of this, God still choose to love us.

The essence of the Word was that He came to show us what the father is like. He broke down a list of rules and do's and dont's into two and asked us to love God with all our heart, soul, might, strenght. He asked us to love others as we love ourselves. We cannot really achieve the second without understanding and living out the first. We need to understand that there is nothing we can do or say to make God love us more. It's time we accepted that fact and accept the free gift of God's love. until we do, we will never really know what it means to be loved. Or to love. Unconditionally.

What do we need to do to understand and accept God's love today?


JC Cruz is the author vof DECEPTIO out now from WestBowPress, a division of Thomas Nelson Publishers (www.westbowpress.com). You can follow him on Twitter @Cruz_JCReal