You may think it comes naturally but it doesn’t. What human beings naturally do is ‘measure’. We measure our time, one another, education, ourselves and many other things. Everyone wants to believe that they love correctly. We even measure when we’ve loved enough and it’s time to stop.
God shows us His nature, Love, all through the old-testament (Gen 28:15). You see the needle and the thread more plainly in the new-testament (John 3:16). So many times, Jesus the Christ, confronted those who measured their love and others by good deeds or status. The truth is whether it is correction or a holy kiss, it should be like moving from one form of love to another and you can only accomplish this by the Holy Spirit. (Luke 4:18) We have to learn to ‘fall back’ in the arms of God everyday or we will keep feeling the need to draw our knife, like Peter did when he felt threatened in the garden with Jesus.
The human gets in the way. What you’ve been through, how someone looked at you, the measure of how many times they did this to you will get in the way. You can’t teach, preach, prophesy or greet anyone without God’s love that says, ‘they have a different past, they don’t understand, or this is how they were taught’. This is not okay to the human being, but to God these are his babies and He’s determined to teach them. You’re His baby and He is determined to teach you.
I speak to a lot of people. You can hear the Lord take control. The things I want to say and the point I want to make, doesn’t make it pass my lips (thank God right). It only happens because I discovered that the reaction or the point I thought was so important doesn’t accomplish what I thought it would. His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts. If we trust God enough to fall back in His arms, everything will turn out right.
It is a command because it is impossible to carry out God’s instructions without it. The Love of God insures that your correction never goes too far. What you equip others to do isn’t too much. It’s the buffer to make sure you don’t harm others and you are not too hard on yourself.
I love Shawn McDonald’s song, ‘Simply Nothing’. There chorus says “What are you man, if you do not learn love”. I believe this is what Paul was trying to get us to understand. (1 Cor 13) All the dreams and aspirations you may have for yourself will come to nothing if you don’t “learn love”.
(Written to the Christian family) Romans 13:10 / 1 John 4:7 & 12
Love Kim S-J
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