Love Is part 2
Love is... what makes the world go round. To live is to love and to love is to live, right? You can't have one without the other and you can't do one without the other. They aren't just connected, they are the same thing. Let me say it like this, "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith" (Proverbs 15:17). In other words, what's on the inside is more important than what's on the outside. You can have all the riches in the world, but if there's nothing filling that God-shaped (love-shaped) void inside you... you'll always be in a place of misery. Money can't buy happiness, right? Better to be content with what you have... and the PEOPLE you can share it with. I've always said there are only two important things in this universe: God and people. And, as always, I know the environment is important. I know animals are important. But when you get down to why we were created, it is all about love. Loving God and loving people. Loving God BY loving people. We are love-fueled in the same way that cars as gas-fueled. A car without gas won't run. It just sits there and won't do anything. Won't even start. People without love CAN'T do anything. Except try to get the love they think they don't have. 2 Corinthians 5:14 in the NLT says, "Either way, Christ's love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life." So either we think (wrongly) that we are not loved, and that belief controls us to the point where we do everything we do in order to get that love we think we don't have... or we know (the truth) that we are loved and that love controls us to the point where we do everything we do in order to share that love that we have. We let our old life--of trying to earn something that can't be earned--go. We've died to that life. So that we could rise up in newness of life. So that we can experience the abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of God. And we experience it by letting HIM live it. By letting HIM love us. Love is... loving God by loving people. Letting HIM love us so that we CAN love Him back by loving each other. Listen, nobody knows you better than your heavenly Father. He knows what you need. Jesus said as much in Matthew 6:8, "Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." And what He did--because He wanted the best FOR us--is He gave the best TO us. Because love is giving. Giving everything you have and everything you are. That's what Jesus did on the cross. He gave us His life. So if your choice is all the money in the world, or someone who loves you... it ought to be an easy choice. Money can buy stuff, but it can't buy the one thing we really need. It can't buy the TRUE desire of our hearts. Which, of course, is love. Love is the only thing the heart is concerned with. Love is the only thing the heart knows, or cares about. Love is not what you have. Love is who you surround yourself with. The PEOPLE in your life. The connections you make. The relationships you build. That's what matters. That's what makes life worth living. Its all about love!