God is Love! So we can only love through God's doing.

Recently I got to fellowship with some young people who are on FIRE for Jesus. The conversation came up about the Unconditional Love of God, and man's attempt to love as God loves. Their take on love, was that even ungodly people love. This observation and acknowledgement of what the world calls LOVE, caused me to think,do I agree with these young people that the ungodly can show love? Do I agree with what the world calls love? Since God is LOVE then His action defines what love is, how it is expressed and what it should look like. So then we need to ask God what is Love. The Bible and Jesus demonstrated The God love, as Unconditional. That God is always forgiving, always willing to sacrifice, always welcoming, always healing, always truth, always just, always good, always righteous and holy. Jesus tells us, "the Greatest commandment is to First love God, and then others as our selves." The pattern is set if we don't love God first, we cannot love others or our selves. So we have to ask ourselves can a godless person express love as is defined by God? So do I think that a person who does NOT KNOW God, can show love or(GOD)? I have to say, I think the world tries to imitate everything God does. The Bible clearly tells us only God can judge what is in a person's heart. It is God who judges the heart of every human“‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules. So it really boils down to the day of Judgement. When God says to those who say to HIM "did I not do this in your name? (His Name is LOVE. GOD is LOVE) Did I not heal the sick, feed the poor, raise the dead in your name? Then God will judged the motives of one's heart. Ask yourself did you do these things out of your love for me or your love for others? 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: We know in our own hearts we can also judge if our motives are pure. We know our own flesh. We know if Holy Spirit is leading us to do something. It is Holy Spirit who knows when we have called out to Him . When we have listened to Him When we have obeyed HIM. He Knows when we have done acts of love for selfish reasons. When we have given to others, made sacrifices, did God get that glory? Did our actions bring the healing of God to that person? Was our obedience to forgive helpful to the one being forgiven? When Oprah gives away her favorite things, is it to give God glory? Is it for ratings on the Oprah show? Can we at least say she already got her glory. Or is her reward for self glory? We often get the reward of the world, it's recognition and appreciation that is offered, when we demonstrate love. If truly we want to shoe God kind of love we have to allow Holy Spirit to control our motives, let Him purify our hearts, so we give glory to God instead of our selves. If we surrender our hearts, minds, hands and feet to Holy Spirit in all our relations and situations. If we allow Holy Spirit to lead us then we get our supply from the Love stream of God, who is the giver of real love, then that is when we truly demonstrate love. The glory to God Love. The sacrificial, denying your personal needs for another love. God gets the Glory in that kind of Love. The love that obeys Holy Spirits promptings. The Love that obeys God's word. The Love that is forever being willing to lay down one's rights and to humble oneself so that God comes through as a shining star. Love is a willingness to forgive because God has forgiven you. Love is supernatural. Love is allowing God to work through you to Himself, yourself and to others. Love is a heart issue, and only God judges the issues of our Heart. Love is not the chemical feeling that we get.That is the physical response we feel to stimulation. Real love is all about God. Only God can work Himself through a human to express Love.Ultimately God expresses himself through us with HIS loving action. He is LOVE!