♥♥♥LOVE♥♥♥

Sometimes we get things backwards. When the bible tells us that love summarizes the law & makes similar statements, most of us think, "Ok now I only have two laws to obey, love God & love others." But that was not the purpose of those statements. The point is love can safely replace the law. You don't have to have a law mindset to love. Love is not "the new law" either, because law condemns you for breaking it. Love does not condemn at all. Law places a perpetual burden upon you. Love removes burdens & gives you rest. There is no fear in love. There is fear in law, fear of breaking, fear of not keeping.

In fact law gives you fear of having to maintain EVERY aspect of your life by your own performance. You have to maintain your self-worth, be in control of your relationship with God, & control your relationships with others. Law demands for you to strictly control every natural thing in your life whether you have the slightest ability to or not. Love offers freedom, freedom from questioning your self-worth, freedom from being in control of your relationship with God, freedom from assessing or manipulating your relationships with others.

The demand of the law was "fear!" The message of Jesus is "love!" Notice that it is the message of Jesus, not the demand. It is love given to you until it naturally flows out of you. Jesus never once told His disciples to "love God" & He only told them to "love one another" after He had walked with them for years so they could "love one another as He has loved them." Who goes out into their yard & starts demanding that their grass grow? No one. Growth is always a natural process & love grows love.

Love only requires two things to be received, awareness & acceptance. You have to be aware of the love someone has for you & you also have to be willing to accept that love into your life. In order to be saved we must simply be aware of the good news that God loves us & accept His love into our life by trust.

There are only two things you need to be able to give love, awareness & affection. You have to be aware of the value of another person to love them. If you are not you will judge them & possibly even attempt to get them to conform to the behaviors that you think will make them valuable. You also have to show affection. There are countless ways to show affection & the beauty of love is to explore those ways to the delight of everyone involved.

Love does not suck up resources. Love is the resource. Love does not demand from you, love gives to you. Love is what gives you the desire & strength to value a person & show them affection no matter the costs. ALL good things are built into love. You don't have to add to love. Love is perfect & complete in itself.

Love does not require commitment because it is natural for love to never leave. Love does not have to forgive (except verbally for others' piece of mind) because love never holds a thing against the person in the first place. If you have to add anything to love then your love is incomplete. If you are worried about your love being incomplete, don't be. God, who is Love itself, lives inside of you. You have an infinite resource of love. You need to let love produce the natural versions of the things you think love requires rather than obligate yourself to do those things by laws, rules, or commands you think you have to keep.

♥♥♥GOD IS LOVE♥♥♥
Now I will take the above statements & replace the word love with God & we shall see how He perfectly represents love.

God can safely replace the law. God does not condemn at all. God removes burdens & gives you rest. God offers freedom, freedom from questioning your self-worth, freedom from being in control of your relationship with Him, freedom from assessing or manipulating your relationships with others. The message of Jesus is "Abba, Father!" Growth is always a natural process & God grows love.

God only requires two things to be known, awareness & acceptance. You have to be aware of the love God has for you & you also have to be willing to accept His love into your life. In order to be saved we must simply be aware of the good news that God loves us & accept His love into our life by trust. There are countless ways to show affection & the beauty of God is to express those ways to the delight of everyone involved.

God does not suck up resources. God is the resource. God does not demand from you, God gives to you. God is who gives you the desire & strength to value a person & show them affection no matter the costs. ALL good things are built into God. You don't have to add to God or His finished work. God is perfect & complete in Himself & He wants to share that perfection with us.

God does not require your commitment, He is the one who is faithful to you & He does not want you to experience the shame of failure that comes with breaking promises. God never had to forgive you because He never held anything against you in the first place. He seeks to remove your burdens & give you life. You have an infinite resource in God. You need to let God produce His natural love in you rather than obligating yourself to perform acts of love according to law, rules, or commands you think you have to keep.