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Someone to Love
What do we wish for most: To have someone to love or to be loved by someone?
The desire to bestow active good will toward someone abides within each of us. The reason we love is born under the nature God gave us, HIs image. 1 John 4.19 says, “We love, because He first loved us.” As the offspring of God, we love. We love someone. The someone we love is also made in the image of God. Therefore, when you have two people yearning to love, the chances are they will love one another.
The ways love is witnessed from one person to another varies from forgiveness, to apology, to rescuing them from sin, to a hug, to holding a hand, to giving to their need. There will always be someone to love in the church, in the family, and in the world. We never run out of people or circumstances where love is extinguished. “Love never fails” (1 Corinthians 13.8).
Love does not keep count of all it has done for someone. Truly, we will never do enough for those who need love. Love does not age. Love only makes relationships closer. It does not hold onto a record of mistakes. It does not try to outperform someone else who loves. Love just loves.
Every Christian needs to demonstrate this love as one of the first items of discipleship. “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another” (John 13.35). What a command! A command which provides an illustration of what a disciple of Christ is. More and more people do not know the Bible nor the God who authored the book on the greatest topic known to man - LOVE. Since people are illiterate in love, we should love someone else as God has loved us. “Everyone that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God” (1 John 4.7).
