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
Recently I was taken by a line written in a prayer update all the way from England..It went like this..."Human hearts need love, and are created for holding and giving it." There have been so many songs written about love, so many poems, so many letters, so many stories, and they all sell well. Our hearts cry out for love and are never satisfied until that void in us is filled.
What is it about this need for love? Why can't we be satisfied without love? The reason its because we have each been created in the image of God, and GOD IS LOVE. No matter how far away from God people move, it doesn't change their need for His love, or the fact that their heart is created to hold and give love.
There is a song that speaks about love coming down. (See video below) Love is actually what Christmas is all about. God whose essence is love, took on human form with the sole purpose of rescuing us from a world that had fallen away from relationship with the loving God that we were created to have. Without that we will never really be complete. It's true, our hearts are never truly satisfied until they experience the completeness of true love that comes from Father God. When we receive His love, our hearts are released to express and extend love to others....and a wholeness is achieved that cannot be achieved outside of that process.
If you, for any reason at all, have been resisting God and the love He wants to pour into your heart, I pray that this Christmas you may yield to what will become a defining moment in your life.
Prayer: Lord God of love, forgive me for keeping you at arm's length and not allowing my heart to be touched by your love. Help me to forgive those who have not shown me a good example of Your love and so blocked my desire for relationship with you. Come visit me with your love and let me be one who truly shows what Your love is really like as I go through life. Amen
