GIVE LOVE

1 John 4:12 “If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.”

You could also tag this: HOW TO RECEIVE LOVE!

I’l start by saying a resounding “HAPPY NEW MONTH!!!!” to every MONIC reader. October is our month of Peace as promised by the LORD and it shall answer in all ways, In JESUS’ Name #Amen

I love the above scripture so much because it explains a lot, and i especially like today's article.

Later in vs 16 and 17^a The BIBLE says “GOD is love, and all who live in love live in GOD, and GOD lives in them. And as we live in GOD, our love grows more perfect…”

Isn’t that amazing? Below are the lyrics to a kiddies song I learnt over last summer. Shall we examine them together?

“Love is something if you give it away

Give it away

Give it away

Love is something if you give it away and it comes right back to you

It’s just like a miracle kobo

Hold on tight and you won’t get any

Lend it, Spend it, Give it away and It’ll come right back to you!”

I’ve been thinking a lot lately and these lyrics truky sum up a good number of my thoughts in an honest and cute way J

In a broader perspective, I mean that, the receiving of GOD’s love for us is a good start as believers, but it’s never enough by GOD’s standards until it fills you up and it begins to over flow so that it gets to everyone and anyone around us whether they are deserving of it or not. Remember HE promised us in HIS word a pressed down, shaken together and running over kind of blessing! When a tank is over flowing, it gives water to everything around it whether it is in need of water or not.

It is therefore the same with GOD’s love inside of us. After we begin to receive the fullness of HIS love for us, we must further come to a stage where we grow in love so much that it overflows to the members around us. By GOD’s standards, only then is love perfected. This should become a challenge to us all because until people (and I mean everyone whether lovable and seemingly unlovable) begins to feel and experience love (the way GOD treats you) then we are still growing to perfect that love. Having in mind that this is GOD’s commandment to us (John 15:12), we must therefore take it very seriously.

On a personal basis, I have learnt that it may start with you receiving that love and it’s beautiful that way, but GOD’s love is only perfected when it is evidently flowing and shown first back to HIM, and then to others around you #Amen!

The BIBLE wasn’t talking about us receiving or feeling loved by them, but that we be givers of this love. Personally again, I have found that as much as you may receive love, satisfaction never comes to any human until they give love themselves! True joy and fulfilment only comes when you are mind made up to give love whole heartedly the level of returns notwithstanding. 

A lot of relationships in the world today have crumbled because one or all parties as the case may be has the mind-set to receive love from that relationship to the extent that he/she has a mental diagram of the other party(s) duties and so (s)he gets so irritated when the other(s) don’t meet their expectation! C’mon! You be the giver and watch how every kind act becomes a treasure and you find greater fulfilment wherever you go so that we live as unto the LORD and stop expecting men to live for our pleasure!

Not until very necessary, I personally used to think that showing kindness, forgiveness and being tender hearted towards everybody was a sign of weakness like you need their attention and it was simply a dent on my reputation. Like why should one be nice to everybody? “I have a healthy enough self-esteem and I certainly do not need them.” Truth is a lot of us did so too, but it’s over already by this revelation in JESUS’ name. It’s funny how people expect the love and respect of others when they give them little or nothing of theirs. You can certainly never reap from what you did not sow. I even yet realised that such and individual will loose on both ends because this mind-set will crash one’s reputation and esteem even greater.

Let us briefly review a quote by Oswald Chambers Bellow:       

“It works in this way- if we love human beings and do not love GOD, we demand of him (human) every rectitude, and when we do not get it we become cruel and vindictive; we are demanding of a human being that which he cannot give. There is only one BEING who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the LORD JESUS CHRIST.” (Emphasis mine)

Wow!

We must never make this mistake. We are in GOD’s image we are created first to be a blessing and then be blessed in return because you are the blessing. #GOD is love. Always remember that!

Give Love

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MONIC!