Saturday, October 6, 2012

Choosing Forever Love

Spiritual living-

1Co 13:4  Charity (love) suffereth long, and is kind; charity (love) envieth not; charity (love) vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1Co 13:5  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
1Co 13:6  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
1Co 13:7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1Co 13:8  Charity (love) never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1Co 13:9  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
1Co 13:10  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
1Co 13:11  When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1Co 13:12  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1Co 13:13  And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity (love)


Love is spiritual, isn't it?
The results of love can be physical, you can act out of love but that love that is causing you to act is spiritual in nature.

Even atheists will admit to love existing, and yet love isn't something tangible.

Throughout time people have tried to find the meaning of real love, because throughout time people have sought love to give it and to receive it.

Love is spiritual.

Though I suppose some might argue it is mental and emotional, but in truth it is spiritual.

God is love.

There would be NO such thing as love without God, He is love and from Him all love exists. 

People want to twist God into a monster because Satan has perverted all that is God. People want to believe that IF God really exists He never would have let sin exist and that any God that would let sin exist is an awful God and sinful Himself.

Of course any person can face the truth, the logic of the fact that had God only made beings that could NEVER think for themselves in any way, He would have had mechanical creatures incapable of receiving or giving love. God did NOT want to surround Himself with loveless beings. Yet to surround Himself with beings capable of love meant giving them the power of choice to love or not love. To force love is to destroy love- because love cannot be forced and still be love.

Love is forever a choice.

Can you choose to love forever? Does that choice take away the power to choose not to love?

We have something called marriage in our world and marriage was supposed to be forever- NEVER ending- unless death caused widows or widower's.  As long as the man and woman were married they were to never part. They were making a CHOICE to love forever regardless of anything unforeseen occurring.  That part about in sickness and health, about committing as long as both shall live, that was a  REAL thing and it symbolized Christ and His People. 

Is it any wonder breaking that vow of choice to love forever is so horrendous? It is essentially saying that there cannot be a choice once and for all to love forever- that there will always be a chance that the love will end. 

How can we comprehend that there will come a time when Christ will return for His people and they will live with Him forever in love if we only comprehend the love we experience here on earth? A love that can cause two people to marry knowing that divorce is something that is always possible should things get too bad, or someone better comes along, or for whatever reason.

Love is a choice, and it CAN be a forever choice and our GOD will know all those who make the choice to LOVE HIM FOREVER and it will be those who fully surrender themselves to HIS LOVE who will be those who live forever in HIS love. 

Sin will NOT enter the world a second time, and it won't be because the power of choice has been removed, it will be because a forever choice to love has been made.

Just as the angels- God's created beings- had to make a choice, a forever choice.  Two thirds of ALL the angels made the choice to love forever while one third of ALL the angels made the choice to not love forever.

Their choice was made and it cannot be altered because it was a FOREVER CHOICE, a decision for eternity.

Have you ever had to make a forever choice?  A choice whose consequences you knew were forever and ever, never able to undo?  We make choices like that all the time on a small level, don't we?  Just the very actions we commit to in one day are forever choices- we cannot undo. If we've made the choice to commit some sinful act and then commit it, that choice can't be undone.  We can be forgiven the choice, but it's not something that can be undone. Equally we can make an act for the sake of love, a loving act and that too will not be able to be undone.

We are the sum of our choices- and we ALL have the opportunity to choose the forever Love that our Savior Jesus Christ offers to us. No one will be able to say they didn't have that choice.

Forever love.

The Spiritual love that goes far, far beyond the physical sensations people can give to one another. The love that comes from that choice, love forever is a very, very amazing thing.

Is it possibly on a human level that you can choose to love forever and your partner not choose that same love? Yes, it is very possible. But when we choose to love the source of love, the author of love, the Creator who is love, that is something that will NEVER not be love- forever love.

Our Creator, our Redeemer, our Father in Heaven, the Holy Spirit -  are all FOREVER LOVE.

1Co 13:4  Charity (love) suffereth long, and is kind; charity (love) envieth not; charity (love) vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1Co 13:5  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
1Co 13:6  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
1Co 13:7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
1Co 13:8  Charity (love) never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1Co 13:9  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
1Co 13:10  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
1Co 13:11  When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1Co 13:12  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1Co 13:13  And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity (love)

Love - suffers long
Love - is kind
Love- does not envy
Love- does not revolve around self
Love- does not think more of itself than others
Love- isn't unseemly
Love- doesn't seek to receive
Love- doesn't easily get angry
Love- doesn't think of committing evil
Love- will not be happy in evil acts
Love- WILL be happy in the truth
Love- WILL bear ALL things
Love- WILL believe ALL things
Love- WILL hope ALL things
Love - WILL endure ALL things
Love- won't fail
Love- is the Greatest Spiritual Gift of all

We have to choose ALL the time whether we will love or not love, in big things and in small things. We have to make this choice - no one is exempt. Those who say they'll opt out and not choose are choosing in that very action and the choice is not to love.

Only through CHRIST are we able to love as HE loves, we CANNOT do it of our own accord. We can choose to put on CHRIST, to accept CHRIST, to allow CHRIST to live in us and LOVE in us, and we must choose this-- forever love in Him.

All by His mercy!
All in His love!
Always!

Praise God!

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