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I'm a teenage girl who LUVS music (and I cant spel, aparentlee). I especially luv Christian music, I just think it's great that God gave us the gift of music to use to praise His name! I also luv to read, luv my family, luv other people, and especially LUV my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

Nov. 9, 2009 - Thoughts On Love - Posted in Stuff God Has Taught Me

Mark 12:29-31 " 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

God seems to put a lot of emphasis on love! The most important things to do in following Him are to love Him with everything you have, and to love other people more than you love yourself. Why is that? What is so important about love?

1st John 4:8 "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."

A definition I’ve heard for wickedness is “the absence of God”. If God is love, then we can replace the word “God” with the word “love” and still have the same meaning, right? So wickedness is “the absence of love”! Wow, I guess that might be what’s so important about love, huh?

1st Corinthians 13:1 "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."

The tongues of angels…I wonder what angels talk about? Well, they are constantly in the presence of God, right? I’d like to think that because of God’s awesomeness, the angels can’t stop talking about Him! He’s just so amazing that everything they could talk about pales in comparison!

So, if we spoke the way that angels speak (talking about God) to other people (as we’ve been called to do), but don’t love those people that we’re talking to, we’re not going to make any impression on them at all! All we’re going to do is be the stereotypical “hypocritical Christian” who is just telling them something to get brownie points from God! A clanging cymbal that everyone just wants to be quiet!

The only way we’re ever going to get people to listen to us when we tell them about God’s love for them, is to show them His love through us!

Matthew 24:12 “Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.”

This verse sounds a lot like what’s going on today to me. Love is being distorted by the world around us, even by Christians! All that the world tends to see when they think of love is s*x, or something that is there through the good times, but leaves when the storms of life come. This is a horribly distorted image of love, so much so that we can no longer see the very definition of love (God) in it anymore!

And Christians have similar problems. We “love” others by not telling them about God’s love for them. We say, “Oh, but I don’t want to offend them” or “They’ll think that I’m weird, and that will give them a bad image of Christians”. But really, how can we say we love our friends when we won’t even tell them about the most important thing in our lives? Is it really loving to let them walk blindly through life and then find themselves in hell when they die? No! No, that is not loving at all! That’s the opposite!

Dear friends, I struggle with this too. I am not a “super-Christian” who has brought many to Christ. In all honesty, I’ve never brought someone to Christ. I’ve helped someone rededicate their life to Him, and I’ve been there when someone accepted Christ for the first time, but I’ve never been the one to go up to someone and tell them the good news of Jesus. I think “Oh, they’ll see it in the way I live and if they’re interested they’ll ask me.” And while it is very good to live a life that shows Christ through it, that is not enough. This is something God has convicted me of recently, and I am trying to get better at it, because, as I said, that’s what true love is. It’s caring enough to do the hard things that could offend people, but it could also save them or at least plant a seed in them.

1st Corinthians 13:8 "Love never fails."

But without love you are sure to fail.

~SeaChel

• What Do You Think?

Nov. 12, 2009 - :D

Posted by Comatose

Nice. :P Great post! You're a really good writer. :P

Nov. 16, 2009 - :D

Posted by Comatose

Hey I just read through this again and I still love it! And God's love is SO amazing! Randomness, I know. :P But it's 100% true randomness! :D

Oh, I'm glad my post got you thinking; when I was reading in my Bible about that I could practically feel the wheels in my head turning. (I responded to your comment on my blog, BTW!) So that really got ME thinking as well, which is why I posted it. :)

Nov. 24, 2009 - Hi! :)

Posted by Liz

Hi Seachel!

Thank you for stopping by my blog and commenting! :)

Great post! God's love is awesome!! :)

I hope you have a great Thanksgiving!

~Liz~

Nov. 24, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by luvdogs07

Haha, sure! Where should I pick you up for next time? -grin-

Those are good points. -highfive for good blogpost-

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