Sep. 19, 2013
FINITE MIND, DEFINING INFINITE LOVE!!!
How do we as created beings characterize the true meaning of the word LOVE when you speak in terms of God. For John tells us in 1 John 4:9-11 “In this the LOVE of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have LOVED God but that he LOVED us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so LOVED us, we also ought to LOVE one another.” In our finite minds, this is called agape LOVE, which tells us that LOVE is selfless, sacrificial, and unconditional. As A human, this is probably as far as our restricted minds can comprehend.
And if Christ is not the focal point of our life then we will probably confuse LOVE with infatuation or lust, with A never ending story and A open book of struggles, and trials in our lives where our memories are but A state of uncertainty, lingering in the mind from past experiences when God was not the single most important Person in our lives.
Going to the WORD OF GOD Paul tells us in 1Cor. 13:1-13 “LOVE is patient, LOVE is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. LOVE does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. LOVE never fails……..and now these three remain: faith, hope and LOVE . But the greatest of these is LOVE .” Paul get’s as close to explaining to each of us the true meaning of LOVE but still with A finite meaning, because men wrote the Bible, inspired of course by the Holy Spirit.
But my friends today as Christians and children of the living God. let’s personalize such A complicated word and I hope once we Do, that we can all agree that the true meaning of LOVE is simply GOD. Who has allowed the miracle of transformation to take place in each of our lives.
For the true meaning of LOVE goes far beyond any explanation or meaning that our finite minds could ever conceived without Christ in our lives. To me personally it is A feeling that you could never put on paper or describe. It becomes A feeling you can only demonstrate in how you deal with the world as A Christian, each day, as you allow Christ total control.
So how do our finite minds define A felling that transcends from A God of grace and mercy who gave His life for us two thousands years ago so that in 2013 we might be saved “…… But God demonstrates his own LOVE for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:7-8 My friends how can A finite mind ever define that in words.
I can see why Abraham was ask to sacrifice His only son. because to truly understand the meaning of LOVE you must feel in our finite minds what God feels. So He 
tells Abraham to “Take now your son, YOUR ONLY SON, WHOM YOU LOVE, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah; and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.'”(Gen. 22:1-2)
So to really understand the true meaning of LOVE it can only be A feeling, A feeling that tells me from deep within that if we have faith and believe, that God has made our life to be as that of a “man or woman after His own heart;” And if we have established such A relationship, then we do understand LOVE . What John defines in 1 John 4:8
“Whoever does not LOVE , does not know God, BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE.” And then when we receive the mind of Christ we are now measured by the life of Christ, as you become A candidate to God’s law of LOVE , and this pure and genuine LOVE can only be given to us through faith that God’s presence controls our lives each day,
as it refines, restores and replaces what the world deems as LOVE with genuine LOVE from God who is LOVE . And if I go one day without this LOVE that God instills into me without allowing self to Die then I begin to revert back to how the world defines LOVE .
So with the mind of Christ we begin to realize through His word and spirit how far sin has taken us from understanding God’s genuine LOVE , and what we must do to be Like Christ, whose KNOWLEDGE & WISDOM OF GODS LOVE comes to ALL who are SOLID LEARNERS of His WAYS and WORKS.
And as we begin to obtain a PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP with GOD through His WORD, the SPIRIT begins to IMPLANT a SANCTIFICATION PROCESS that CONVERTS GODS nature and love into ours. For It is not POSSIBLE for the HEART where GOD ABIDES, not to LOVE as GOD LOVES, A GOD WHO GAVE HIS ONLY SON SO That ALL HUMANITY MAY have eternal life.
And Now my friends through Christ and His LOVE, we become Justified to live with Him in His pure and holy kingdom. For once we are justified through His LOVE we are then “Set in A perfect vertical alignment with Christ and His will for us. And as we begin to understand the LOVE of God through Jesus Christ on Calvary.Then this,
“Enables Him to take your life & put it up against Christ perfect life which is His standard of righteousness & declare you to be as perfect as He is. No matter what your personal circumstances may be. And despite awareness of my own sinfulness and humanity today, as I look at the cross i’m just in awe of the fact that you see me just as perfectly righteous as Jesus, because though He knew no sin, He permitted Himself to be made sin on my behalf and to suffer the death that I deserve “(Bill Liversidge)
So my friends I now walk like Christ, I talk like Christ, I treat others, using Christ as my example. And Each Day of my life is now spent with The one who now lives in me, and I no longer conform to the world’s definition of LOVE . But Christ LOVE lives in this finite mind and body, because He and His LOVE is infinite. So friends today my definition of the word LOVE , out of the many definitions each of you or the world can define, is simply Jesus Christ and Him crucified who lives in me today, tomorrow, and soon to be, throughout the ceaseless ages of Eternity.
So friends stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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