Love is everywhere in our culture. Love stories on all the bookstore shelves, songs on every playlist about love, shows on TV trying to help you “find love” and apps on peoples phones claiming to do the same thing. But ironically, I think love may be the one thing that our culture is actually missing the most.
Why is this? Because so many people don’t know what love actually is.
“But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” 1 John 4:8
We’ve all fallen victim to counterfeit loves that the world has to offer. People (romantically) that we don’t belong with in that way, “love” of a hobby that distracts us from the things that actually matter, “love” of a career that rules our lives and calendars, “love” of habits that are actually harmful to us… the list could be a mile long. But the root of the matter is this, if God is love (which you see scripture tells us, He is) then if you don’t know Him, you don’t know love… and if that’s the case, how could you be expected to show love?
You don’t know real love until you know Jesus. So I BEG you to start there. You’re not going to find the love and fulfillment in a partner, a career, a friend, or a family that you’re looking for, because it only comes from one place and that’s from knowing the Lord. Once you do know that love, THEN it overflows from you into every other area of your life.
“We love each other because he loved us first.”
1 John 4:19 NLT
It’s not protests, new government officials, laws passed, or wars ended that we need to bring more love into our world… it’s more people that know Jesus, who IS the love that we need in this world, so badly.
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