Philippians 1:9 “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight”
Jesus was and is our model of how to love. He loved because that is who He was and is. So must we love the same way. Not grudgingly, but rushing to do what is loving not because we ought to, but because we must, and we must because that is who we are. We must yield to the Holy Spirit so that He may change each of us into the “new creation” that we are called to be (2 Corinthians 5:17). God is preparing us for Heaven. He is helping us to shed the creation that this world bore to the creation that God has supernaturally born us to be. As the love of God is poured into us and it changes us to be the same as He from whom it came, we are transformed from beings who think about what are the attributes of love and so try to do them, into actually letting what we have been transformed into, flow through us. The Lord changes us to be like Him in that we don’t love because we must, but because love is an increasing part of the fabric of who we are. We love because love is who we are. Selfishness is being moved out and love has made our spirit its home. Jesus loves because it is who He is. We love because we are becoming like Christ.
We will ever continue to be transformed by love. On this earth, we will not get to the point where love is perfected in us, so we keep praying and obeying. Still, we can get much closer to living in love than from where we began. We can love first because that is who we are. With love comes knowledge and depth of insight on how to live as God lives. With love is pure wisdom of God. Even wisdom comes from love. We know we have it by how we act. Those who truly love grow from trying to love to just loving because that is who Christ has changed them to be. Let’s strive for love to be inherent within us. “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.” 1 John 4:7 Family let’s be like God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit as He transforms us to be like Him. Let’s love from a changed and pure heart. And let us never stop continuing to thank and praise God (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18). God is good all the time and He loves us. That is our goal. Praise God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.