Are we growing in Love

Are we growing in Love

How often have we asked ourselves this question in relation to our Christian walk?
it's interesting to note that one of the greatest indicators that we are growing in our relationship with God is our willngness to Love.

... 1 John 4:8 tells us, 'God is Love' it's his nature. Love is not something that He does, for He is Love and we are never more like God than we Love. Yet a good many of us wll confess that we love the Lord, but find struggle in Loving others. However, Jesus makes the second commandment as important as the first. We cannot love God and not love our neighbour at the same time. We wll also notice here that Love is not described as an emotion or feeling, but it's a command from God himself.Our God is a jealous God. He desires that we give him first place in our lives and love him with all our substance. We have been created to Love hm and be instruments of His Glory. We also know from the above verse that "The Lord is Our God" and if we love anything or anyone more than Him, then that person or thing becomes our god, but if we Love Him wth all our might, He is our God.

Colossians 3:9-10: "You have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator."As we surrender ourselves to Him and Love him with an undivided heart we renew ourselves in the Likeness of God, his very nature, the DNA of God himself is transferred supernaturally into our very being by the working of His Holy Spirt. So as we continually give ourselves to God and fellowship with Him n Prayer & the Word, he equips us for service. if we are to grow in Love, we need to learn to obey the Lord and make Him the King and Master of our lives. Real Christian service will only begin when Jesus is fully and freely able to live His Life through me. John the baptist understood the key to maturing in Love towards God and his fellowmen. John 3:30; He must increase, but i must decrease. When He increases, it s never a struggle to love others. When Jesus increases in our life, Loving others is no longer a duty, but pure joy. As He becomes greater and i become lesser, my joy in Loving God and fellowmen increases too.

1 John 4:19; We Love God because he first loved us
Lastly we can Love God because he first Loved us and once he has set his Love on us and we cleave to Him, nothing can seperate us and he calls us to Love our neghbour wth the same commitment. And who is my neghbour? in the parable of Luke 10:29-37; Jesus defines who is my neighbour and qualifes anyone God puts in our path.