One of the most confused and abused words used while in this corrupted world is the word Love.
In terms of sovereignty, what if the word Love were reserved and only mentioned whenever someone wishes to convey the supremacy of the same God it also defines?
What if all other instances where someone tries to associate the word Love to their own outward expressions and it does not match what the Lord has to say about Love?
1 John 4:16-17
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him.
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1 John 4:19-21
We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
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Does the God of Love ever discipline you through the ways He interacts with your life choices made?
Does the God of Love bring correction to your life at any time?
On the other side of seeming discipline, have you ever felt just as confused afterwards as you were before? If so, where does true learning and the essence of correction meet?
Does the God of Love allow you to make your own mistakes only later help you sort through the results of those choices made?
Is your God as the one you say that you love only available as your personal "Bail Out" God?
Enough that you find yourself repeatedly living through nearly the same results of the same basic poor choices being made?
Is your God that is Love the consistent God of Love that is aware of you before and after your choices made?
In terms of an assault or an offense against the Lord whom sits on High, can anyone truly bring harm to His person?
Can anyone truly change or alter all that the Lord is and will continue to be throughout eternity by their actions or words spoken while here on earth?
If thoughts of slander concerning all that Love is were ever to enter the picture, what physical appearance or verbal form would such slander assume?
What if the only damage that's done with regards to all that Love is and does can only be found within in the minds (perception) of others?
It's easy enough to declare "I am a Christian", yet what about the evidence that declares on its own that says "I love God"?
That is to say, "I love God" not only precedes your entering the room but also trails behind you as commentary about you once you leave the room?
What have you done in the name of Love?
What damage have you done with regards to someone else's perception of all that Love was intended to be in this earth?
Wouldn't your answer require knowing the absolute terms of engagement where Love performs?
Have you ever stood by an watched the life of another deteriorate and then pass on to the grave without ever having warned them that their life choices had them headed for something much more serious than the death of their mortal being?
What of the parent which cares for the daily needs of their own child that tells them "I Love You" every day, yet fails to inform that same child as to why those same words have any real meaning?
Are you the parent that feeds, clothes, schools, hugs and kisses their child every day that continually says "I love You", yet never counsels them concerning the savior of all mankind, Jesus the Christ?
Whose kind of Love have you truly introduced them to?
Have you somehow suppressed the "Truth" concerning all that Love is by never having shared with them the "Why" they too need to be introduced to this same source of Love that is supreme?
Are you somehow able to Love greater than the One which defines what love is and does here in the earth?
Rom 1:18-20
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
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1 John 4:9-10
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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The essence of all sin results from NOT having believed upon Christ Jesus enough that you not only understand what Love is, but also what Love does not do?
Could this be said because Jesus was NOT the Lord (dominate voice) over all of your choices made to date?
That is to say enough that mankind (to include your children) can see the choices that you now make have been the direct result of what Christ Jesus has also done through you!
John 3:16-21
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God NIV
