As a parent you hope and pray that your children will love one another and get along. For the past few months, I have had the joy of watching my two children show a love for one another that is just indescribable. It's amazing how only my oldest actually talks, yet they communicate so well. They know how to console each other, how to make each other smile and how to make each other cry. They know when they can be rough with one another and when to be gentle. It's amazing how through our children, God will give us the greatest revelations.
In Ephesians, Paul tells us to "Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma." That is just so awesome! Our children are imitators of God! They are pure little beings that love unconditionally regardless of how selfish the world is around them. We are to demonstrate to all the Love of God; that unconditional, unfailing love. We can be so focused on our anointings/gifts that we become complacent with the greatest gift that God has given us all, LOVE.
1 Corinthians 13 says:
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
We need to abide in love. We need to BE love. Love is not just a feeling, but a choice. We have to choose to love even when that love is not reciprocated. We need to love our spouses regardless of the trials that come about in marriage. We need to love the unsaved so that they may come to know God. We must love those who are in authority over us even when receiving correction. We must Love. As you see in the word, it's not an option. To love with the Love of God is to understand and exemplify the true nature of God. God is Love. What are you?
