Love in Action!

Love is an Action!

Understanding the difference between false love and Christ perfect love.

The force of love has the amazing capability to mend, restore, build, transform and illuminate! Love is packaged with a force that breaks down barriers while creating a road that leads to peace. Although love alone cannot penetrate, it takes the individual rendering the love to move with action. The force of love gets its power by the submission of a persons hearts’ posture. Love is enhanced through humility. In order for love to truly move in action an individual must surrender themselves; love is not selfish. Love pours out like a faucet with no shut off valve. Christ demonstrated true love on the cross. Even unto death he poured out love and denied himself.

Love is developed in humility

No matter what relationships you encounter, whether siblings, parental, friendships or marital relationships each one must be willing to submit to one another in humility to receive love and give love. Love in action takes practice, mainly because we need to learn how to forsake our own selfish desires and put others first. I’m not talking about being a doormat; but each participant will need to be willing to submit to one another by putting love on, or might I add; putting humility on. True love brings peace, it heals, gives comfort and harmony, provides a sense of safety and it has the capability to extract greatness from another person. What an amazing feeling; this type of love mirrors after Christ love toward us.

The False Lover!

We as humans fail at love, in most cases, and is demonstrated as false love. We fail because we forfeit the act of surrendering. In my experience with my past relationships I was approached with false love. In some cases many people may not understand what love truly entails. Love gives itself without any expectation of a return. False love will tell you they love you, with all that is within them; but the actions of the individual will not match the words they’re expressing. As I mentioned earlier this generally relates back to lack of humility and surrender. False love causes eternal fear and dread of what is to come. There’s no safety or comfort in false love. False love is misleading and causes trust issues. It generally displays the opposite of what the individual is saying; causing confusion and anxiety in the life of the person that is expected to receive the false love. The person that gives out false love will never sacrifice or give themself to another person totally. The love they give generally gives back to themselves; such as doing nice things openly to the person they’re in relationships with. Subsequently, what’s being done generally benefits them to an extent. Everyone around them will tell the individual receiving the love action that they are truly love and he/she has really shown the world that he/she truly loves them. Inwardly the individual receiving knows there’s a void in their heart and love is not fulfilled. False love is inattentive to the receiver and only draws attention to the false lover. False love will repeatedly make the same mistakes and render the same apology over and over again. Unrecognized false love can drive a person into confusion and depression. I experienced false love and this love lead me to a sea of sorrow and pain. Causing my emotions to be unstable as I began to drown in confusion. It is the enemies desire to trap us in our life journey. He takes unsurrendered emotional problems and wounds from people and use those very wounds to isolate the individual from God. He will eventually use the same wound to attack others. Satan’s agenda is to utterly destroy mankind.

If you are experiencing false love, it will take understanding Christ true love to recover and heal the wounds in your soul. In my journey to recover the pains in my soul from my false lover; Christ opened my eyes to the fullness of his love. Being in a relationship with someone that renders false love can lead a person to never want to surrender their love ever again. Christ had to reveal to me the strength of my love and demonstrated to me how to keep my faucet on; allowing me to continue to be a vessel that has the capability to pour out love. We want to pour out fresh love, not bitter water. “Does a fountain send forth [simultaneously] from the same opening fresh water and bitter?” James 3:11 AMPC. We must understand that every person we meet or start a relationship with may not have the full understanding of love. Therefore keeping in the forefront of our mind that there is no one on this earth capable of giving pure love, only God can give us this. We all have selfish moments even when we try not to be selfish. This is why many people become hurt in relationships, this includes church hurt. We hold people to perfect love standards that we ourselves are not able to give. Yet we expect others to walk in love at 100%. That’s simply impossible although we can make an effort to love purposefully.

The Perfect Lover!

Christ is the only perfect lover! Many people hold pastors and their spouses to standards that they themselves would never come close to meeting; not knowing they are really in search of Christ perfect love. This is why Christ came to earth, to remove any barrier from us coming to him individually, without the requirement of a priest. We hold people by the standards of the type of love we desire, although what we give out is minimal if we base it on what the other person expects to receive. In most cases the love that we give out, do not satisfy the other persons needs because it’s what we believe they need. To understand love we must inquire of the others person expectation. If both parties are endeavoring to meet the desires of the other no one will come up short. Unfortunately we spend more time trying to ensure someone is loving us correctly or the way we desire. Love becomes a power of force when we learn how to surrender to love in action. Love gives unselfishly with no limitations or restrictions. Christ loves us even if we choose not to love him. When we deny him, he loves us. When we turn away from him, he loves us. When are actions are opposite of his commands, he loves us. There’s no borders on Christ’s love, it extends farther than we can imagine. “And above all these [put on] love and enfold yourselves with the bond of perfectness [which binds everything together completely in ideal harmony].” Colossians 3:14 AMPC. We cannot know true love or “put on love” until we invest in Christ perfected love. We must invest our time in coming to know and understand the love God has for us. Once we grasp his beautiful love we will not require perfected love from mankind, although we will understand that we all are needing our love walk to be perfected in Christ, while allowing Christ to teach us how to put on love. I believe this is what Christ wants, for all of our needs to be meet and fulfilled in him. When we understand that we must look to Christ for all things, we weaken the enemies attack against us. Our hope, trust, love and all our being is in Christ alone. “And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth.” Colossians 3:2 AMPC.

Prayer Confession:

Father your love is truly greater than what I can perceive. Let understanding be my portion, open the windows of my soul and allow me to consume the passion of your love towards me. Remove the bitter taste from my mouth as it pertains to love. Cause stability to invade my emotions and deliver me from this wavering heart. Teach me how to surrender in love. Teach me how to give love, not based on how I receive love. Invest in me your perfected love then renew in me a right spirit as understanding is enlarged within me. Let my soul find contentment in you! It is my desire to put on love and blanket myself with the bond of your perfected love. I will set my mind towards your love and keep it set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on this earth. Let my soul profit from the strength of your love and compassion. In Jesus name! Amen.

~ My Passion Confessions