HE IS LOVE

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 13:34 All these things Jesus spoke to the multitudes in parables, and He did not speak to them without a parable,

Love is one of those invisible, intangible concepts that is as real as the nose on your face. How, I ask, can a person be a concept? God is love: go figure. It certainly gives strength to the Lord’s statement, ‘Blessed are those who haven’t seen and yet believe.” I haven’t seen love other that what our Lord has illuminated in my heart and that which I witness with my eyes. Love is visible and sense through the presence of His Holy Spirit only. Everything else seen, felt or imagined is a counterfeit from the flames of Hell.

True love, that which is God’s essence, the cause of all true love is unchangeable. You either have it all or not at all! Divine love is God and all He is always. There isn’t any more love to acquire but to be fully exchanged in Him: bon again. The word “self” leaves your vocabulary as the Holy Spirit pours Him into your empty repentant soul. God bless you to be filled to the brim!

This new self-sacrificing you joins Him at the heart, so to speak, and you both become inseparable. Look at it this way: you are hand-cuffed to your Lord. You unselfish submission to Him is without reservation: it is 100% integrity and godly character. You are walking and talking a lie and you are the reason the name of Christ is being dragged through the mud of time. There’s nothing compelling in a love that staggers and falls at the slightest touch of the devil.

Your commitment to His love must be sacrificial. It will cost you all that you have and all that you are or forget it! I will not lie nor string you along with ear tickling nonsense. You must turn or burn!

I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would hesitate to accept His love, surrender, repent and follow Him as Lord. What is your valid “plan B” compared to His sacrifice on the Cross, His resurrection from the dead and ascension into heaven?

He loved us to death, His death so that we might live. Death stung Jesus and died!