God is Love Part 2

1 John 4:8 "God is love."

I want to make clear this blog is not only for non-christians but for christians. We desperately need to know God's love! Now to my article

Did you ever wonder why God created us? He did not need us because He was fully content in the Perfect Fellowship of The Holy Trinity. God is love and He was perfectly happy pouring out love - Father to Son, Son to Father, Father to Spirit, Spirit to FAther, Jesus to Holy Spirit, Spirit to Jesus.

But The Father chose to adopt us as His children before the world was created (see Ephesians chapter 1). God wanted something, someone else to pour out His love upon for no other reason than to bless them...to bless us. The very reason He created us was to love Him and be loved by Him. God created us to worship Him and enjoy Him.

Now you say - "Wait, creating us to worship Him is selfish, right??" My answer is no! Not if you really understand what worship truly is. To worship something is to gorge on it, to be caught up in it forgetting all else. Ever notice how we can become gluttons and make idols of sex, money, power, food...etc. That is because we were made to fill that gluttonour hole with God's love. That IS worship.

The most loving thing God could ever do is allow us to worship Him. For to worship Him is to "see" Him by faith. In The Psalms it says things like "taste & see that The LORD is good" and "Lord at your right hand are pleasures ever more" and also"Your love is better than life!!" .
Peter said that in really knowing Jesus deeply would bring a "joy unspeakable and full of glory."

This is also NOT selfish because The Father directs worship to His Son. He made us to bless His Son. We are called (collectively) The Bride, and also a gift to Jesus, and also His little brothers and sisters. Jesus on the other hand made us to worship His Father. But then again to worship God, to truly glorify Him (are you ready for this) is to enjoy Him forever!!

We have been called into this love celebration!! Father loving Son, Son loving Father, Father and Son now both loving us along with His Holy Spirit filling us with His life. It gets better....we then were called, next, to love one another - human loving humans!! It is a love cycle.

Get this: we were created to contain and express God's love; better said: We were made to know God's love and make that love known. To know God is to know love becaus God is love. We simply open ourselves up to receive His love and let that love flow thru us - back to Him in gratitute and worship and to our fellow man.

This happens when we connect to God's agent, His instrument of love - Jesus Christ. Jesus said that He was the vine (or in modern terms the tree) and we are the branches. We plug into Jesus to re-connect back to God , for all mankind in his dysfuntionalism has sinned and torn away from God. But Jesus is the way back. For people who are already christians - Jesus IS the way to experience this love.

Fill up on His love today!
SJ