Category: God's love

Created for Love

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God, the Creator of all the Universe, is the All-Wise, All-Knowing Father. He is love, the Bible tells us in 1 John 4:8: “for God is love. [He is the originator (or source) of love, and it is (the) enduring attribute of His nature.]” God designed us with a deep hunger for the perfect love that flows from Him. He designed us to relate to Him and to feed on or be dependent on Him as our source of love. No human relationship, not marriage or close friendship or the parent-child bond, can fill the heart of man at its core as God’s agape love can. Humans need intimate fellowship with their Maker. 

What is God’s love like? It is totally giving and unselfish, unlike the largely self-seeking hearts of people. A pastor in Fort Mill, Dennis Clark, uses the term “God emotions” to describe the fruit or issue of the life that comes from the Holy Spirit. [My definitions of the fruit below bear the Clarks’ influence.] God’s desire for us is that we be filled with Himself through the new birth explained in John Chapter 3. [God is three-in-one: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.] 

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The Vantage Point of God: the Key to Operating from the Heart of God

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“God looks at us differently than when we look at us. His love isn’t just what saves us; it’s how God sees us. We see what we are and what we’ve done. He sees what He intended and what we can become if we’ll surrender to Him.” 

—Zack Hensley from his sermon notes, “Rediscovering Abiding Love,” (forerunnerchurch.com)

So I give you a new commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you. For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you are My true followers. (John 13:34-35 TPT)

It’s noteworthy that Brian Simmons in his Passion Translation uses the phrase “my old identity” when writing of what was co-crucified on the cross with Jesus such that we can live as new moral creatures in Christ. The verse reads, “My old identity has been crucified with Christ and no longer lives. And now the essence of this new life is no longer mine, for the Anointed One lives his life through me—we live in union as one! My new life is empowered by the faith of the Son of God who loves me so much that he gave himself for me, dispensing His life into mine!” (Galatians 2:20 TPT) Right identity or thinking of ourselves and others in terms of God’s whole new creation reality is key to flowing in an unrestricted way from the loving heart of God. Holding to God’s vantage point is vital to experiencing the freedom to love with agape or charity as the King James words it. 

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