Title: When You Love God
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when you love God
1 John 5:1-5
There is the greatest power in this world. That's love. If you have love, you can overcome any circumstance, and you can live an abundant life even in a difficult life. Love also dispels fear and gives rise to wisdom, understanding, creativity, and motivation. No matter how difficult it is, if you love your children, you will have the will to work again. No matter how difficult marriage is, if you have your husband's warm comfort and love, you can endure it. Where there is love there is happiness, and where there is love there is blessing.
Love transforms hell into heaven. When you walk with your loved one, the Cheonggyecheon Stream feels more beautiful than the Seine River, your lodging room looks more beautiful than the Palace of Versailles, a whisper with your loved one is more moving than any other music, and even a fight with your loved one is the seed of happiness. In the same way, love covers all faults.
But why doesn't the word love feel so inspiring today, and it doesn't have the power to change the world? The main reason is that they misunderstand love. For example, all parents today say that they love their children. In fact, I really love you. However, the concept of love is often wrong. What are some of the false concepts of love?
First, being overly tender is not love.
It is not love to wrap up your children too much and not properly teach them what to teach. If your child is naughty and the parents are still, no one can correct the bad habit of that child. In the end, the wrong love will ruin the child.
Second, being overly strict is not love.
If you go to any house, it's strict enough that your child can't breathe. You should not overextend your child's qi, but don't overdo it. Then your child's creativity is ruined.
Third, excessive possessiveness is not love.
Parents say to their children, “Are you coming? OK?" Doing whatever your child wants while doing it is like poisoning your child. In fact, such an attitude stems from parental possessiveness rather than parental love. Parents should understand the needs of their children and try to meet them, but not the desires. Excessive abundance robs children of their dreams, visions, fulfillment, and challenge, and causes them to lose the most important thing in life, the heart of gratitude.
Fourth, excessive laissez-faire is not love.
Giving children adequate freedom is necessary, but the more freedom you give them, the deeper they need attention. Annoying when your child asks you to talk to your parents and asks for touch, and “Why are you doing this? If you turn away from saying, “I know how busy moms are!” and later when they reach puberty and close their minds, even if they want to talk to them, they say, “Mom! I'm busy."
Many people today have the wrong concept of love. True love basically comes from the love of God. But there are things that appear when we love God. What is it?
1. Brotherly love
in verse 1 of the text. “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the Begotten loves him who is born of him.” Simply put, it means that those who love God also love the children of God who are born of God. In other words, the love of God and brotherly love are not separate.
Sometimes there are brothers who do not like them, but if you still love God, you must love those brothers too. Sometimes we are betrayed by a brother we trusted, but if we still love God, we should not be disappointed in that brother. Originally, people are not objects of faith. People are only objects of love. Even if you are disappointed at times, if you continue to trust that person, in the future, that person will become a real trustworthy person.
Now we need to love each other more and cherish each other more. In a way, the members of the church who meet at least once a week are much closer than other brothers. Therefore, the members of the church must work hard to give and receive. It is not just to receive, nor is it to merely give. Some people are good at giving but not very good at receiving. However, when someone offers to give, you should be happy to receive it. Such a person is a person with a generous heart.
If you look closely, someone who has been loved knows how to give love. From a psychological point of view, a life that does not receive is just as stingy as a life that does not give. We must be good receivers and good givers. If you give well, you will receive well, and above all, God's grace and blessings will be given in that love.
2. Obedience
Verses 2 and 3 say, “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.” This verse is saying that if you love God, you will naturally obey God's Word.
In John 13:14, after washing the disciples' feet like a servant, Jesus said to them, "You also wash one another's feet!" It is said that in order to have true love, one must become a servant. If we love someone, we should be able to actually serve him like a servant, not just in words. Love without the attitude of a servant is not true love.
When we raise our children, the most important thing to teach is the attitude of a servant.
The Bible has countless references to the blessings of children.
If you want your children to live the life of a winner, you must also teach them how to lose beforehand and how to get out of trouble. Statistically speaking, there are very few only children among national leaders and chief executives. The problem is not the only son itself, but the parents raising their only son like a prince.
The world doesn't want princes and princesses. The world wants people who have the attitude of a servant. Therefore, if you love your children, you should raise them as servants, not as princes who only think of themselves.
If you do what your child asks you to do, your child will grow up as a weak and ungrateful child, but if you set up a barrier and teach your child obedience, your child will grow up to be a loving child who knows how to be considerate of others. Love begets obedience, and obedience is a sign of love.
3. Joy
Verse 3 says, “This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not heavy.” Like these words, God's commandments are not heavy. Rather, it is fun and joyful. In carnal and selfish love, as time passes, jealousy and jealousy arise and joy disappears. But true love is always accompanied by joy.
Love and joy cannot be thought of in isolation. A life of faith without joy is dead. Even hymns and prayers without joy are futile. Likewise, love without joy is dead love. No matter how hard you work, if you do it with love and joy, the suffering turns into sacrifice.
Of course, keeping God's commandments is not easy. But there are ways to make it easier. That is, of course, to think of it as something I should do. Then you can be faithful with unchanging joy. If we joyfully practice God's commandments in this way, God sees us more than anyone else and opens the door to blessings.
4. Faith
In verses 4-5 we read, “For everyone who is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith. This verse says that if you love God, you will have amazing faith that overcomes the world.
A person's true power and blessings come from faith. No matter how much material you have, if you don't have faith, it becomes a desert, a deserted island, and in extreme cases, a hell. Without faith there is no love and no blessings. Without faith, you will go to hell, but even before you go to hell, you will live a life like hell. Conversely, if you have faith, you will go to heaven, but you will live a life like heaven even before you go to heaven.
Most of all, we need faith. The environment is difficult right now. But it's not the environment that matters, it's the beliefs. Faith and love can change any circumstance.
No matter how difficult the environment, if there is love and faith, change will happen. When the husband believes, the wife gains strength, and when the wife believes, the husband gains strength. Even if it is difficult, do not lose courage and believe, “I can definitely stand up again in God, I can succeed, and I can be happy!” Faith and love have the amazing power to lift up the fallen and change the environment.
One day, a man accidentally found a magic eraser. The eraser was an eraser that erased anything. He tried to erase the newspaper with the eraser. It was really erased. Excited, I erased the book and also the dictionary. However, only one word was not erased. After sweating profusely to erase it, the eraser finally ran out. It is said that the word that the magic eraser could not erase was the word love.
This magic eraser symbolizes time. Time can erase everything, but not just one love. So love is eternal. Even if everything in this world disappears, the times and memories I loved and the fruits of love will remain forever. Now, I hope that I will be able to draw more water of love from the fountain of the people inside me, so that I myself can live, and become blessed people who flow many springs of love in this harsh world.