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God’s Love Is Action

 God’s Love Is Action

1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Check it out. To know love is not about a feeling or emotion but an action. Jesus laying down His life for us. Knowing this love we should lay down our lives for each other. (This means more than dying for someone else. Keep reading)
1 John 3:17
But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? 1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
If we are in Christ then we are in His love. If Christ is in us then His love is in us. If we walk in the Spirit and are filled with the Spirit we are then full of love because the fruit of the Spirit is love. Galatians 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, Galatians 5:23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
To lay down our lives for one another is more than just physically dying for each other. It is lying down our wants and our selfish desires for one another. It is putting others needs before our own.
This type of action is not normal and thus we, in our own selves, cannot accomplish this. Our love fluctuates based upon our emotions and whims.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
This verse is impossible for husbands to do apart from Christ. No matter how hard you try no man can do this on his own.
Laying down one’s life for anyone isn’t natural because death is not something that we naturally desire. We naturally want to live. Therefore we need the supernatural love of Christ flowing through us.
God’s love never fluctuates. So for us to love anyone the way we are supposed to we need to abide in His love. John 15:9
“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
If we abide in His love and His love abides in us we then will be able to love each other and our wives they way God desires us to. This will produce actions that just flow out of us. Without saying that we love them people will know it because of our actions.
You want to have the best marriage ever. Abide in the love of Jesus and let it abide in you.
The greatest manifestation of the Holy Spirit that could ever come through you is to have agape flowing out of your life into the lives of others.
Saying I love you isn’t it. It is living I love you that is.
God loves us for us. Before we did anything good He loved us.
In our loving others this should flow. Our love should be Spirit led and activated. So we are acting towards them in love separate from their actions.
Let us in word and deed love our spouses, children and others not for their actions but just because they are. Just as God loves us.

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