To Love And Be Loved-Part One

We all have a deep, natural, God-given desire to love and be loved.

Even in the Garden, Adam longed to know (love) one as he was known (loved).

He walked side by side with God every day.

He was able to sit and be embraced by Love.

He had that face to face relationship with The Father that humanity

has cried out for since the great fall.

Yet, in all of that, that was not enough for Adam.

God saw Adam's deepest desire and said, 

"it is not good for man to be alone."

So he put Adam in a deep sleep and fashioned woman

from the inside of Adam and brought her forth.

We live in a society that is crying out to love and be loved more than ever.

They are filling this desire in ways that are unnatural, self-pleasing

and not of God's original design for us.....

Man's idea of love and God's idea of love are two completely

incomparable types of love.

Man's love is instant, self-serving and fading.

But God's love is slow, patient, kind and everlasting.

Ultimately, God is Love.  

And we can't truly love how we were created to until we KNOW Love;

intimately, passionately, and wholly.

We cannot be fully loved until we choose to know the One who is Love.

Then He will come and fill those deepest desires within us 

to love and be loved.

He will give us the ability to pour out that 

pure, selfless love to others who still have the longing we had.

That love that He gives us will change hearts.

It will change lives.

It will change atmospheres.

It will change governments.

It will change the world!!!

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.  He who does not love does not know God, for God is love."

1 John 4:7-8

"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