Regardless of what the World shows me.
Did you ever have a day when you felt as though the whole world was against you? If it weren’t for bad luck you would have no luck at all? How loved did you feel on that day? Sometimes you feel as though you are the most unloved person in the world, even though you know better. It is on days like those you question even the love of God. But the Bible teaches us that God’s love is the foundation of how we should live, think and make decisions, and interact with others. Do you think on the days you felt unloved it is because you are not putting anyone else first in your life? Was all your thoughts and introspectiveness focused on yourself, or did you put others first? Psalms 36:7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. What more loved or safer place in the world could you be than in the protection of God’s wings?
The best way to understand the love of God is to meditate in His Word. To read God’s Word every day reaffirms the avenues of how God sends His love to us on a daily basis. Psalms 42:8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. Who else in your life promises to be with you 24/7 without question, station in life, or what you have of value. God does not love us because he has to, he loves us because he created us, to commune with him, and to call his children. He shows us his love in a million different ways, like a rainbow, a sunset, and as for me, through hummingbirds. The very definition of God is love, as the Bible tells us over and over again.
No man has ever seen God as we are told in 1 John 4:12; Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
We cannot give away something we do not have. In order to give love to others we must accept God’s love for ourselves. In order to know God on a personal level we must accept the death of His son Jesus Christ, as a sacrifice for our sins that make us worthy to be in the presence of God. Then we can know the love of God, we can love ourselves, (not in a selfish, self-centered way) in a balanced way, and then we can give that love to others, because we know what true love is, through the Holy Spirit. God wants us to accept His love, and give it to others, keeping ourselves filled with the Holy Spirit, and our cup of love overflowing.
As parents we constantly tell our children we love them, why? Do we think they will forget from one day to the next, or is it because our hearts overflow with love for them, and we have to keep giving it to them so we don’t explode with it? God feels the same way about us, and wants us to give His love to others. Through God’s Word we can teach our children what true love is, and they will never have a day in their life when they do not feel loved.
We as authors, usually incorporate a love story in everything we write. I think it is fundamentally built in that every person wants to be loved. In our feeble way we try to show them, through our writings, what true love is. God already perfected this in His writing, the Bible. We should try to promote that perfect love.
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 41:10
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35-39
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
I John 4:10 &16
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Ephesians 3:17