Manifested Love.

Manifestation of Love.

God's moral law IS the manifestation of love.

Breaking of the moral law IS the manifestation of not loving.

God loves us weak, love-less creatures and longs for us to be loving with His love in us.

This is why the most caring, giving, seemingly loving person could be far from God- they are all those wonderful things for their own pride, their own self-satisfaction. Their motives behind all their charity is self-congratulatory.

This is also why the most awful person can be a struggling God loving person. They are filled with sin and are longing to be filled with the Spirit to keep them from the awfulness they are prone towards. Their repentance and remorse is genuine, they are wretched, terrible people doing the things they do not want to do.  God will save them through God the Son's sacrifice. They can be guided, taught, shown the way to the truth of love, that truth being God.

Is God's love unconditional?

Let me ask you… have you ever loved something? Be it human or animal or even an object.  If you believe you have loved something in the course of your life- is that love you've given retractable based upon conditions? With divorce so prevalent obviously people do say they love and then stop loving- based on actions/behavior any number of things. Their love wasn't love it was conditional affection. However, some people who do end up divorcing still love the one they're divorcing. They may no longer be together for whatever reasons, but the love can never die if it's truly love. You can hate, absolutely hate what another person does to you- abuse in all its many forms- but still love them. You can despise a person's actions but still love them. You can't love someone and then stop loving them, or it was never love. It's better to admit you don't or never did really love someone, than to say you loved them and stopped.

Are you shaking your head and telling me I'm crazy about now? How can love be loving someone that tortures you? You can love them, but not stay with them. I'm not condoning remaining in a tortuous relationship. This isn't going to be a popular opinion by any means.  But, if you believe God is love, and you are a part of God's family- you love all, even the most detestable of all.  That love does not mean that you condone ANY of the detestable actions carried out by anyone. Your love goes so far as to believe that there is intricate worth in humanity that offers every human being redemption. Every human being has opportunities to repent and be forgiven, to belong to God through the sacrifice of God's only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. We may not like it. We may believe some people who have committed evils beyond imagining are beyond forgiveness, but they are not. The judge is One who is far greater than we are and knows the hearts of people in ways we cannot. 

Back to God's love being unconditional.  God loves us even as He watches us destroy ourselves by making the choice not to love Him. God's forgiveness to the truly repentant is endlessly given (at least until our Savior is ready to return to end this sin-sick world). God hates sin- all that is not love- and hates when people choose to not love because He knows what love is and what it means because He is love.

God's love is available to all without any restrictions.

You could keep all the commandments perfectly and still be without God because your heart is not filled with God's love, you don't have God's Spirit in you, Christ is not living in you.

To even say we have to believe, and that is a condition, isn't true… because even if we don't believe it remains- God's love remains whether we believe in it or not.

Many things exist that we do not love… it doesn't stop them from existing.  If we CHOOSE to believe in God we automatically get His unconditional love. 

You say that after you believe you have to do all sorts of things to keep His love or else you'll lose it? His love remains regardless, His forgiveness is available to us, our choosing to constantly holdfast to Him is paramount.  Making our lives acceptable to God is choosing to let God live in us and making this choice constantly.  God tells us we are in a war- a war that has been WON by Him, but the enemy refuses to give up any chance he has of garnering inevitably doomed people to his side. The more people Satan can take with him to his ultimate demise, the better, is his thinking. With that in mind as long as we are in this world we will face a constant barrage of temptation to slip out of love, and into a sinful state.

Does God want us to reveal our loving relationship with Him by keeping the moral law- and recognizing when we fail to do so, we need to seek forgiveness, yes.

The moral law is the manifestation of God's love put into words.

The moral law revealed how impossible it is for us on our own to be loving as God loves.

The moral law was kept perfectly by Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, for He is love.

The actions of Jesus, the words of our Savior revealed the love more fully to those who could not comprehend the love in the moral law.

Summing up the moral law went like this-

Love God-Love Each Other.

Love.

Mar 12:29  And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 

Mar 12:30  And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 

Mar 12:31  And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. 

The entire moral law was all about loving God and loving each other.

Love.

God is love.

God will have a world of love.

God will restore human beings to their purpose, to love.

All that will not love- because love is a choice - will not belong to God and have no part in a world of love.

1Co 13:1  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 

1Co 13:2  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, and have not charity, I am nothing. 

1Co 13:3  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 

1Co 13:4  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity 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 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. 

God is love.  

1Jn_4:8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

We believe, help our unbelief.  Mark 9:24