God's Love- Our Love.

 We make choices every single day and by those choices our lives are shaped. We may think our everyday lives have very little meaning when we are not out there in the world - a doer- a helper - a person who visibly gives of themselves selflessly. We may believe that because we are not of the bent to interact with others that we are useless to God. I'm serious. God would have us doers of the word, helping those in need, loving others as He would love them. Giving not receiving. All true, all His truth. God would have us love, and love is so much more than what we might perceive it to be. What if God's purpose for you was to love a single other person so fully, so completely that love spilled over to others through that person and the outreach of that love expanded so widely there was no way to know just how many people it touched. I have no way of knowing if this is true, but I do know my God is love and that all those that choose to belong to Him and live in His love are used of Him in His ways, not the ways man sees. We simply need to love wherever we are, in whatever situation we are in. We need to love those God brings into our lives and love them as He would love them, not as the world defines love. What do I mean by that? I mean God's love is a love that goes beyond this life. Do we love others for eternity? Through all the horrors of life big and small? Forgiving others everything? Yes, I said, everything. Do we love? We can love all- from our family, our friends, and we can also love all those we meet every single day. It's true. We can love with God's love which is not the distorted love of the world. When I tell you that you can love everyone it sounds preposterous when you believe I'm talking about loving as the world loves- because that kind of love is preposterous. That kind of love is the kind that you can 'fall out of'. That kind of love has conditions placed upon it. The world we live in has so much to offer that isn't of God, we have to love with God's love, not the world's. We have to love God, not the world, and God would have us love those in the world, with the hope they will be in His world, His love.

(More on this tomorrow by the grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!)

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Unspotted from the world, friendship with the world is enmity with God. Being a friend of the world means being an enemy of god. Not of this world, Jesus was not of this world. Being not conformed to this world. Delivered from this present evil world.        The world is crucified unto us, and we are crucified to the world. Affections set in heaven, not on earth. Love not the world. Love neither the things in the world. All the  lusts of the world are not of God. Doing the will of God- abide forever. Being born of God-overcomes the world. Believing that Jesus is the Son of God, overcomes the world. 

Jas 1:27  Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Jas 4:4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 

Joh 17:14  I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 

Joh 17:15  I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 

Rom 12:2  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 

Gal 1:4  Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father

Gal 6:14  But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

Col 3:1  If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 

Col 3:2  Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 

Col 3:3  For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 

1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 

1Jn 5:4  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 

1Jn 5:5  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? 

1Jn 5:18  We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.