It is arguable that love is the most misunderstood concept in the whole wide world. Satan, being the author of confusion, introduced concepts such as lust and infatuation, in a bid to misdirect the minds of the children of GOD.
One major difference between the type of love that the world promotes, with the BIBLICAL love found in 1 Corinthians 13, is that the world's love is selfish, self seeking, and self-pleasing while the love of GOD, as demonstrated by CHRIST in the cross, is self-denying and self sacrificing.
However, a major difference that is the focus of this short write up is that, while the world's love always receives, GOD's love always gives. This is clear from John 3:16 "For GOD so loved the world that He gave...." In 1 Corinthians 13:5 we are also told that love seeketh not her own.
One thing I realized, albeit faintly, is that when GOD gave His Son to suffer eternal death, He gave His everything, and was left with absolutely nothing.
This is clear from Colossians 1:16-17 which states as follows:
"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."
Thus from the above verses, we realize that since everything was made by him and for him, and all things consist by him, then it simply means that when GOD gave His Son to die, He gave everything. And since He gave everything, it means He remained with nothing.
This is a concept that is alien to the human mind because, as humans we always retain something after giving. It is unfathomable to give everything and remain with nothing.
When man sinned, GOD had a plan to sa
What amazing love!
Ponder about this. Would you give your life to Him who gave everything for you?
CHRIST asks you today. He says " I gave my life for thee....what hast thou given for me?"
GOD bless you in abundance as you ponder.
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