Don't Just Be A Recipient Of God's Love ... Be A Donor! Are You Allowing God's Love To Flow Through You Into The Lives Of Those Around You?

Are you just receiving God's love and never allowing His love to flow through you onto and into the lives of others?   God's love is amazing, unending, and supernatural.   It never changes.   It looks beyond our faults and sees past our imperfections.   God's love endures.   Have we forgotten that we are made in His image and formed after His likeness?   Have we forgotten that His Holy Spirit resides on the inside of us?   Have we forgotten that greater is He that is in us than anything else in this world?   Have we forgotten that He wants us to allow His love to flow through us into and onto the lives of those around us?  

God does not want us to love someone today and to say that we don't even like them tomorrow.   He does not want us to look at the mistakes that others have made and point out all of their imperfections.    He wants us to understand what it means to endure.   It means to suffer patiently.   It means to last, live on, go on, abide, and to persist.   It also means to remain, to stay, and to survive.    If we are to endure in love, we can't just walk away or walk out because the situation is painful.    Understand, that is not saying that we are to suffer abuse and to stay in abusive situations.   Abuse is the improper use or mishandling of something.   God did not call any of us to be in abusive relationships.   

Make up your mind today that you are going to be a vessel through which the love of God flows freely through.    We have to learn how to love people into the Kingdom.   Instead of pointing out their faults, let them see God's forgiveness first operating through your life.   Let them feel the flow of the love of God coming from you to them.  Remember, love is not always deserved.   Keep in mind, God loves us despite our weakness, disobedience, and sinful nature.   He has forgiven us and has allowed us to come before Him and to partake of His love, His grace, and His mercy. 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION 

1 John 4:9-11  

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.