November 21
Loving God makes an amazing impact on a life. Apart from that love, God’s love, which defines love, none of us really have any love at all. That may sound like an extreme statement, but the Word, which cannot fail and cannot lie, says, “God is love” I John 4:8. Consequently, those who don’t have the Lord cannot truly love.
Yes, they may feel an emotion they identify as love, but it is not love, cannot be love, if it does not have God who is love as its source. Just as one might possess millions of counterfeit dollars and not have any money, so one who has an emotion void of God’s love does not have any love.
How can an observer identify the genuine article? Conversely, how can he determine if the love he thinks he sees is counterfeit? In John 14:21, Jesus said, “Whoever has My commands and obeys them is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father; I, too will love him and show Myself to him.” Identifying love in another means seeing Christ in him.
Christ is seen when one obeys the commands of God, for true love desires to walk in obedience to the One who is loved. When we love the Living and True Christ, we reflect His glory to the lost and dying world around us. When they see Him in us, they are transformed by His glorious love. The impact of that transformation is eternal.
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