God is Love

“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them”

I John 4:16

 

 

All love originates from God.

On the one hand that may be a very easy statement for some to accept.

On the other hand some simply cannot believe it.

Why?

Because like so many other things from God, it has been received by man and abused.

Sexual love comes from God.

Those trapped by others in the sin of human trafficking for sexual purposes have experienced man’s abuse of this gift from God and would struggle to see sex as a gift, let alone a blessing.

But God gave it as a gift and set for us boundaries.

We have broken and thrown off those boundaries and so for many the vision of sex as a gift from God has become blurred at best.

That love we know as a ‘friendship’ love has been abused through one-sided friendships where it becomes ‘all about me’ causing the other person to withdraw from trusting and establishing friendships lest they be trapped into the same situation all over again.

Abuse.

Dr. Myles Munroe, who is now at home with the Lord, once taught a valuable lesson on the word ‘abuse’ showing how it is derived from the words ‘abnormal use’.

In other words anything we abuse – be it drugs, sex, friendship, intimacy, means we are using it outside of its’ intended use.

Do you want to know Gods’ intended use for love, sex, friendship or intimacy?

Then don’t look to popular culture or our society for the answer.

Go to the Creator.

Find the answer from Him.

Go to the One who is Love!

God is love!