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God is love

God is love (updated with more thoughts...)

It’s been a long time since I last wrote something in this space.

So now that I’m on leave, it frees up time which I would otherwise squander away by bumming because when you are working, you just don’t wanna do anything else when you’re NOT working…

It’s funny how when you’re busy, your brain functions on auto-pilot, and sometimes, the Lord just finds it that extra difficult to get through to you, anyone with me on this?

Then we keep mumbling and wondering if the Lord is there when we pray or when we cry out to Him, not knowing that all the while, He is there, just that we conveniently refuse to open the door.

Sometimes, it’s as if, you know, the Holy Spirit becomes like a ‘nuisance’ and I say this reverently – your mind goes something like…”Eh Lord, busy la now, don’t come and disturb me…”

But when we encounter challenges, we would shed buckets of tears before the Lord and cry out “Oh Lord, hear my prayer…”

Okay okay, you all are good folks okay, I’m the odd ball here…haha

Anyway, so it was, now that I’m sooooo… free, it seems, the Holy Spirit’s promptings just become a tad clearer.

This morning, while on a bus, feeling sleepy and all, the Lord dropped a nugget into my heart.

He said to me: “Let love find you…”

And I was like…hmmm…thinking, Lord, why suddenly this phrase…

Then He replied: “I am love”.

It then became clear to me what He was trying to tell me.

It’s almost cliché to say that we should let go and let God but we never seem to do that, especially in the area of relationships.

We always feel the flesh working against us. We can be praying for one minute to let go and let God take care of our life partner. Then the next minute, we try to make something happen by our own flesh.

It can be as simple as sending a text message, to find something to SMS that someone, or even to msn that person – I’m sure we’ve all been through that one way or another.

Rather than let your thoughts, and your world revolve around that person of your heart's desire, why not let God woo that person for you?

You know what, God desires much more to provide that ideal life partner for you than you are.

In fact, He has gone way ahead of you and saw to it that you shall have a blessed marriage and family life. He already saw your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Dear brothers and sisters, you are precious to God - you are His Beloved.

The Apostle Paul says it like this in Ephesians 3: 13 - 19: "Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

"For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, (Ephesians 3: 14 - 15)

"...that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; (Ephesians 3: 16 - 17a)

"that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height - to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." (Ephesians 3: 17b - 19)

The width, length, depth and height of God's love is measured by the Cross - that He should let His Beloved Son be subjected to extreme torture, pain, sufferings, sickness, all manner of disease, to be sin for us on the Cross, that you may be redeemed, scantified (which means to be set apart), and raised with Christ to the status of Son-ship!!!

Selah (Pause)

Let me say this again - dearest brothers and sisters, YOU are PRECIOUS to Abba Father, YOU are His BELOVED!!!

Meditate on that love, dwell on it for a while.

In fact, the Apostle Paul is so convinced of the love that Jesus has for all of us that he writes in Romans 8:35 :"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

"Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. (Romans 8:37)

"For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come," (Romans 8:38)

"nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:39)

There's a Chinese vernacular saying that goes like this "You're choosing others but others are choosing you too" when they advise people against being too picky about their life partner.

This statement is both true and not true.

It's true because the world sees relationships as such, but the Lord Jesus says it himself in John 15: 19: " If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world..."

The above vernacular saying hence do not apply to us anymore. Because the Lord chose us even before the foundations of the world, even before you were conceived in your mother's womb.

The Lord set you apart, raised you up to the status of royal kings and priests - a sanctuary and temple worthy of the Holy Spirit, worthy of His love.

"And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16)

"Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. (1 John 4:17)

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. (1 John 4:18)

"We love Him because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19)

And He says to you and me: “Let love find you” and 1 John 4:8 tells us that “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

God is love! Amen!

Let’s say that again, and this time, just take some time to savour and meditate on what He’s telling us…God is love!!!

Let Him love you, brothers and sisters, and that love - His love - will attract that brother or that sister-in-Christ to you - because it's the love of God!!!
So, let God (love) find you!!!

1 John 4: 9 - 10 is so beautiful – it goes on to say that “In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.”

God is love. Let love find you. Let God find you.

Beautiful…

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