We Are Made to Love

Smile! We are alive and loved by the greatest of greatness, the King of kings, Lord of Lords! Prince of Peace and Everlasting Father, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Hallelujah! ! John 5:2-3 tells us, "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the Love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous."  We are created by Jesus, so we are made to love. We are made to smile.

Love is not grievous! Our Father knows best. His ways of better than ours, he won't let us down and he has restoreth our soul and given us a new, clean, and righteous heart to love him with. Mark 12:30-31tells us, "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. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these."

Jesus is love. His word tells us that if we don't love, we don't know him. we are made to love. Let's do what we were made to do and love! Love yourself, love your family, your friends, and strangers. Let's not only love when it's easy. We have to love the unlovable. We have to love those who hate us, those who spitefully use us.

Love everyone, not only when it was convenient because while we were yet sinners, Jesus showed us how much he loved us by dying for us. We serve a merciful God. One who loves us unconditionally. We have the best example of what love is, our Father. This is why we are made to love. Let's love.

Selfless Love

Every morning my fiancee wakes up early enough to pack lunches for the two of us before her 8am class. Today, she asked for help but I was unable to because I had this blog to post. She did not fret. She simply made lunch to express her love for me. I missed the entire mark today: love.

Selfless love is patient. She could have gotten irritated but she did not. I could have stopped what I was during to make her process a bit easier but I did not. This is not patience, nor is it love. I am not beating myself up but am simply sharing my learning experience. In everything we do, we must have charity for without charity, it profit us nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:3).

Hebrews 12:1 says, " Wherefore seeing we also are compasses about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." A big sin of mine is running with my desire, but we know that sin is an offense to God so we should be selfless in denying our flesh. This the selfless love we need.

I thank Ke'Ana for showing me selfless love today and I encourage all to be selfless in their love.

New Day

Today is a new day. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow is not promised. Today is what God has blessed us with. I've learned to honor Him one day at a time. The Lord said, "Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (1 Corinthians 5:17) I love how Jesus is the same yesterday and today and he will be the same tomorrow. It is us who have to take each day and try to match Jesus' love not only for Him but for ourselves.

One thing I've learned is that I did not love myself. I abused my body, poisoned my mind, and deprived my spirit. The worst of the three was depriving my spirit. I am my spirit and I need to be fed each day. I learned that The Word feeds my spirit because it is God talking to me. I learned that in His Word are details of how I should honor him with my body, and how my mind should be renewed in Him and what my spirit needs. My spirit needs Him and it cannot receive Him through doing worldly things. I have to be new in Him and leave those things which are behind.

Today, know that God loves you and wants you more each day and that each day is a new day to give your all to Him. Today is your day!

Good Morning

Today is going to be a good day. How do I know? This I know because today is a good morning. How is today a good morning. Today is a good morning because it is a new day, a new day that I was fortunate enough to see. Today is going to be a good day because I have a fresh yes! Today is a good morning because Jesus shined down on me today and woke me up with His light, hugged me with His grace, and kissed me with His love. His love is a perfect love, that knows no boundaries, knows no limits. When I say good morning, it truly is a good morning.

JOY!

When you imagine life for yourself, your family, your significant other, you never imagine pain. You imagine the happy moments filled with smiles, playing Just Dance, or Karaoke with friends. You never imagine ripping your heart out to avoid the heartaches that people that "suppose" to love you bring, nor do you imagine a life filled with loneliness to remain detached from people to avoid getting hurt.

When people mention joy, they don't mention that its not always filled with smiles and laughs but often filled with hurt, pain, and suffering. But, one may ask, how is this joy. Joy is Jesus over yourself. We suffer with Christ so that we might reign with him. Suffering with Christ, shows God that we can bare the fruit of long-suffering, temperance, and meekness. I often learn through my own suffering that when Jesus suffered for me, he chose me over himself. So how can I be joyful in a world that is full of hurt, harm, and disappointment? By putting Jesus over myself. This way, I know that my suffering is not in vain.

My suffering is not for the enemy's pleasure but for my Lord and Savior to get the glory in the end. We have joy through Jesus. In this world, you will experience pain, but putting Jesus over yourself will get you through it and to a more joyful state because you are living for Jesus, suffering for Jesus as he has done for you.

Love one another

Growing up, unity was not something pushed in the school systems. Therefore, it was every man for himself. How many grew up feeling alone, feeling as thought it was yourself against the world? I was not exposed to the ideology of loving one another until I sought Jesus. When Jesus revealed himself through the word he said love thy neighbor as thyself. Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Treat others as yourself!

Embrace Freedom

Sometimes we forget just how good Jesus have been to us. Jesus freed us through letting his blood shed on the cross from his head bearing thrones! This is not a fairy tale, this is a miracle! This is the key to the cuffs being removed, the map the the lost, comfort to the weary. Fear no more, we are freed and no longer have to worry.  

Standfast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. -Galatians 5:1. We cannot allow ourselves to go back in bondage but flourish in freedom. 

Flourishing in freedom will keep us bond in Jesus' Love which is all we need. Taking the liberty to pray an hour a day, praise Jesus with hymns. My favorite is Love You Forever by Tasha Cobbs. One of her lines states: 

You wont ever give up on me
And all that I have will never be 
Enough to 
Show you 
How much I 
Love you
But I'm gonna Try!

We have to take liberty in loving Jesus with everything we have and more. Standfast means to refuse to abandon one's own belief. 

How many believe we are free today? How many know we are free today? I am here to tell you to walk, run, leap into Jesus' liberty and do not look back!