How do you make love ?
Shame on you for thinking that when you seen the title of this blog.We all make things in life, we make money, we make gifts, we make conversation and yes we make love to a husband or a wife. I am now writing for a larger purpose on love , How do you make love for God. For a complete stranger, for a family member who has you at wits end, for a friend who you want to help change and to help that friend find peace and contentment. The bible tells us over and over again, to love. The greatest known verse is John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. This is the Lord telling the world that God loves the world and all the people in it. He sent his son for you and for me.
When dealing with others, where is your heart and what are the motives that stir your actions? We are told in Luke 6:31
Do to others as you would have them do to you. We would want others to be kind, honest, faithful, giving, intimate, sincere, authentic, so since we require these traits from others , it is also our responsibility to return in like minded behaviors, making things pure and respectful. Sounds a lot like making love to me, we can also do just the opposite with our tounge and our actions, we do show the world who we are not so much by what we say , but how we act. What are you showing the world?
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ( Love never fails )
We all go through hard times in life, and those times are going to be a testimony later for someone who you have never met yet. A women survives cancer and soon becomes a strength for the women who just was diagnosed with cancer. A child is born ab-normal and soon you are around other Parents dealing with the same frustration, How could a loving God do this to me. Well he has not given you more than you can bear
Ephesians 4:2
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
God will always give you the people you need to walk with you in your Journey, we have to decide it was given by God and Make love in it. To make love you have to put forth the effort to give and receive other wise your just making your own self will, and being selfish, self seeking and Love is the opposite of those two things, Love does not seek itself, yet seeks out others to share with, walk with, care with, sacrifice for. Holding one another up in courage and faith knowing that He who sent them also has a purpose for each person in your life. They are the tools and the advocates that Jesus gives us in times of trouble and times of laughter and Joy.
The world tells us to love things and seek more , more, more stuff.
Gods word tells us that we can not serve two masters .
Matthew 6:24
"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
The whole reason I have written this is to share with you his great love, a love of redemption, and a reason to love and make love to all those you meet, We can show them treasures of the heart, things that will not fade away, and decay. We can show them that He first loved us, so we will love them, The lost , the broken, the hurting, do not walk away from someone in emotional pain, and if they tell you they need your love, love them. Even if they do not tell you, love them, hate what is evil yes but don't hate the sinner. We are all sinners and yet Jesus showers us with mercy and grace, We have no rights to expect others to meet a performance trap. The world says perform, do good, succeed, it's ok to do evil to get ahead, God says, we must love and in order to love we must first.
Matthew 22:37-39
Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
This has been on my heart for about 2 weeks, now . That is how God use's me. I will get a thought and then in my mind start to create the words and the message that I am suppose to share with others, and then one day, I do sit down and it all comes together, because he is faithful and always finishes what he starts.
I hope that in some way this has penetrated your heart, I know that the title, can be taken out of context, but really we want to make love and show that God gives love and makes the broken loveable , makes the addicted healed, makes the marriages that are ready to fall apart one again. We have to be one in Him in order to do his will and his work, it is hard to die to self daily, and become more and more Christ like in order to show the world him through us, its a serious responsibility. We are each others keeper, we have to in love be honest with one another, we have to carry the burden and we have to pray for each other in love, in his name.
Make love to others today, embrace someone, tell someone you love them, weird maybe, but then again they did not understand how Jesus did what he did, Do not be afraid when he asks you to do something out of the normal, like grabbing a bunch of kids and playing Frisbee, or helping that homeless man who is drunk and hungry, its not our Job to judge his drunkenness, it is our Job to offer him food, and a word of salvation, LOVE, we must love all things, for him. This is no easy task. Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice for us I think we can endure a bit of being uncomfortable in order to be his hands and feet on earth. Making love and changing the world one heart beat at a time
Thank you for reading what I feel is guided by the one who gives life by Pamela Joy Benigno
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