“Our love for God is reactionary… it doesn’t originate in us, our love comes from an external source…
Truly understanding the source of our love for God should obliterate the pride that’s Satan would try to poison our hearts with… Satan has a deceptive trick, he takes what is good and twists it…
Truly understanding that this is the source of our love for God should both humble us and liberate us…
If we within ourselves are the source of our love for God… what happens when our love runs thin… eventually we all come to the end of ourselves…
But if our love in Christ is reactionary… responding to Someone else’s love being poured into us… the love of an unlimited God being poured into us… that’s another thing…
We can have an unceasing love… because the love of God is being poured into our lives, day and night, this love enables us to truly love Him in return…
God is the source of our love for God… God is the source of everything good… Even our love for Him…
How on earth can a perfect and holy and just God ever have a restored relationship with humanity… only an act of love beyond our imagination could restore that…
Jesus loved us so much that he absorbed the punishment, the righteous judgment, the perfect justice for all of humanity…
To truly love Jesus we have to come to an understanding of the horror of the cross… that because of love innocent blood would be spilled for each and everyone of us… To truly love Jesus we have to know the wonder of the cross… that one man’s sacrifice could save the entire world… this has to fill our hearts…
And the beauty of God is that from that place of love… where we have been loved so freely and given so much… so much love that absolutely none of us deserves… From that place… that is how are to love others… Not in ourselves, not from some source based in our own good character… but we love one another from the overflow of God’s love for us…
I believe the quickest way to get to the place where we spiritually need to be in order to love those who are hard to love… is to return to the first love… “we love because He first loved us…”
The truth of our reactionary love towards God should both humble us and liberate us…
• It should humble us in that we are not the source of our love, but God is…
• It should also liberate us; if we are found in Him, our love is not a product of our self-will, of our own power, but our communion, fellowship and relationship with God…
• Let us be that open pipe, that useful vessel, that connected conduit for the Love of God toward others…”