Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. – Mark 12:30
The command to love means nothing unless Christians understand what love means. One does not need to search further, for the meaning of love is found in God and certainly the Bible means more when it says, “God is love.” Love is God’s very nature. To understand God’s nature is to know what love is all about.
In John 3:16, God demonstrated His love through Jesus Christ who fulfilled all that the law required. The law spelled out the meaning of love but Christ lived it out. The law expressed the demands of love but it itself cannot fulfill those demands. The law tells us what love ought to do but it cannot do it.
God provides this love for all who are willing to receive it. God hates sin so much that He cannot even look on it (Habakkuk 1:13, Proverb 6:16-19), but He loves sinners so much that He gave the best He had for them, His only Son.
All who are willing to die to self and allow this love to flow through them will receive the power to love as Christ loved. When we experience the compelling love of God, we will naturally grow to love the people around us as Christ loved.
Selected – “The Christian Ethic of Love” by Norman L. Geisler.
This Week @ Detonate:
Yes! You are right! We are having a special speaker again this coming Saturday at 4.45pm sharp! Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Let's us look forward to this time as the speaker shares with us about God's message and her personal testimony. See You there!
Prayers and Fasting from the Body:
This day, 12 Oct 2009 at 00:00 am, as we deny ourselves and fast till the end, a 3:16 movement, we gonna get down to our knees to pray for the people that we will be inviting for the 3:16 event on 12 Dec 2009 at 06:30 pm. We gonna trust and believe God to open the hearts of those in our generation to recognise God in their lives! Let us encourage each other along the way. Amen!