The Perfect Gift

Have you ever had one of those mornings when you just did NOT want to get out of bed? Every morning, right? Lol! I had one of those recently and as I lay there my mind went to a wonderful place, filled with the best gift anyone could ever receive. Love.

We humans spend a large part of our lives looking for love. It's like we were created to love and to be loved. Hmm. Perhaps that's why Jesus told us the first and greatest commandment in "To love . . ."

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.” - Luke 10:27

Whether it is God or our neighbor we are commanded to love. Seems simple, yet people have a hard time doing that for some reason. Instead, we hate, we kill, we ignore, we talk trash. Satan is good at what He does. But he can't stop our desire to love and to be loved.

As a former youth leader at church I have seen many young men and women "looking for love in all the wrong places." They seem to think that having sex is the same thing as love. It's not. That's called lust and lust is a sin.

Sadly, today as I look at these same youth group kids, now adults, I see many of them with children. There are no fathers in their pictures on Facebook. The guys who said "I'll love you forever, Babe" are now with someone else. Sex does not equate with or create love. It creates children.

Here's another thing that people get wrong. Living with someone and having sex with someone without their being married FIRST. Having sex without being married is called fornication in the Bible. Here's what the Apostle Paul says about it. There are many other examples to choose from as well.

"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God." - 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Ouch! Did you catch the part that said "will not inherit the kingdom of God?" Yet today many of these things take place as if it's a "lifestyle," not a sin. Why? Because it is something that our culture teaches. It's rampant in our schools and universities. It is even condoned in some of our churches, even though the Word of God clearly calls it a sin.

Like I said before, Satan is very good at what he does. And if we are following Satan's plan and not God's, what does that make US?

Satan worshipers. Not God worshipers.

Let me return to my warm comfy bed where all is right with the world. Where love is pure and unconditional. And where I can pray to a God who loves, not as the world loves, but as GOD loves. It's how we were CREATED to love.

Let's not mess with God's prefect plan. We need to repent of our sins and turn / return to God. Only then can we find true love. We will find the love we always knew we wanted because we will no longer be looking for it in the wrong ways or the wrong places. True love is the perfect gift. Not because we receive it but because we first give it.

"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." - Micah 6:8

Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places - Johnny Lee
Courageous - Casting Crowns