Love is a hard thing for a child to understand completely. Honestly love it seems is a hard thing for many adults to understand. Each day I try to teach my children to love. Love is not merely for the people you like. Love is being able to share that toy that you really want to keep all to yourself. Love is not just the mushy feelings you get in your tummy when you see a pretty girl at the age of 13. It is having respect and genuine appreciation for all men and women that you come in contact with. The love that Jesus brought to us on earth I think is often misunderstood if not understood at all. I often have a hard time wrapping my head around it myself. As humans we think on such a different level because we are so wrapped up into our physical side we don’t understand our spiritual side. We are part body and part spirit. God wants us to love and sent Jesus to teach us how to love in person. When we sin we hurt our relationship with God, its like going up to your best friend, looking them square in the eye and smacking them right in the face. God loves us all so when we sin against each other or him directly he takes it personal. When we sin we are focusing on ourselves, satisfying our own desires with disregard to others or God. Now God gives us free will so we can choose that, and if that is the life we choose then well God will let us have that, but we don’t get to live in God’s house in our next life eternally in the spiritual realm. God wants us to choose love so that we can share his kingdom which exists without blemish in perfect love. Jesus came as a perfect teacher and fell in love with us. He allowed himself to be the perfect sacrifice for all the sins that we had and will commit. He wanted to show us what true perfect love is so that we would have an example to follow. So if we choose to love as Jesus calls we will believe that he is the son of God. If we choose to live a life of love following and believing and choosing God’s way and loving everyone we meet as we love ourselves then we will be ready to enter the kingdom of heaven. We all make mistakes. No one is perfect and Jesus is ready to take away any sin at any time for those that believe and repent, but you have to have and open heart and love back. How many of your friends will invite you into their homes after you have slapped them in the face?
John 8:21-30
21Again he said to them, "I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come." 22Then said the Jews, "Will he kill himself, since he says, `Where I am going, you cannot come'?" 23He said to them, "You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. 24I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he." 25They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Even what I have told you from the beginning. 26I have much to say about you and much to judge; but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him." 27They did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father. 28So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority but speak thus as the Father taught me. 29And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him." 30As he spoke thus, many believed in him.
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