What Love Really Means

I love this song! I have been singing it repeatedly for quite some time. I think it describes so well what we all want. We want someone to love us for who we are, not for what we have done or what we will become. We long for this kind of love. We lust after this kind of love. We search everywhere for this kind of love. We attempt to change our behaviors to earn this kind of love. We go to great lengths to be loved.

But the only place we can locate this love is in the arms of God. He is the only one who can love us in this manner. The Bible says in John 3:16 "For God sooooo loved the world, that He gave His only son, that whoever believes in Him shall have everlasting life." (Emphasis on the "so" mine) He loved us when we were unlovable, unlovely, and in sin. He loved us when we could care less about Him and knowing Him. He loved us when we doubted and hated Him. The cool thing is that just as He LOVED us, He still LOVES us and He WILL forever LOVE us! Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8) and so that means His love remains the same!!

Even though I know these truths that I am sharing with you today, God is teaching me more about His love and what it means in my life. He's changing my thinking and revealing lies I have believed about Him in my heart and mind. He is showing me His love in fresh new ways and I pray He will do the same for you! This is my prayer over us, just as Paul prayed it over the Ephesians many moons ago, "And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." (Ephesians 3:18-19)