Love is one of the most powerful universal languages that brings people together. Love is something that everyone needs and wants, but it's so important to have and build a healthy foundation of love.
The wrong foundation of love can eventually cause one to fall and lead one down a crooked path, but the right foundation of love allows one to bloom and grow in its designed form and leads one down an illuminating path.
Matthew 22:37-38 states, “ Jesus replied, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’’ This is the first and greatest commandment.”
This scripture is the first and greatest commandment that Jesus called us to follow but why?
I believe this command comes first because it sets the foundation for us as believers on how to build a healthy foundation of love.
People are constantly looking for love in men, friendships, money, our children, social media, and more but all these things will fail us eventually and cause us to move on an unhealthy foundation of love.
Many people want and look for a love that feels stable, but there is only one that can give us that stability of love we are looking for and that is Jesus. Jesus is God and God is love.
We must remember God is love and if we want an everlasting foundation of love we must go to the one who created it.
It’s impossible to know what love is without knowing and loving God first.
HERE ARE 3 REMINDERS ON THE BEAUTY IN LOVING GOD FIRST:
1. LOVING GOD FIRST TEACHES US WHAT LOVE IS
1 John 4:7-8 states, “Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
This scripture speaks to the fact that God is love and how we are all children of God if we have the gift of love in us.
As a child grows, they look to their parents to help guide them and lead them in the journey of becoming who they were created to be. In the same way as children of God with the gift of love in us, we should look to God to know what love is because God is love.
The more we seek God the more we will know and recognize His love.
God created us in a way that causes us to have a longing for Him and His love.
God loves it when we come to Him. God loves it when we seek Him first. God loves communicating with us and leading us.
May we take the time to truly love and get to know Him so we can then learn to know what true love is.
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