Blessing Others

There is great sorrow and sadness in many of the popular love songs.  They speak of love as a fleeting joy, a seasonal bliss that comes as sure as the blooms in the spring garden, but winter is never far behind. The lover, or the loved is unable to remain in the dance, and yet they avow their undying affections as they move on. Was it really love then? Could something so beautiful, soft and tender, have such a pragmatism? We understand the love that sprouts and grows, and then for various reasons dies. There are no fleeting promises of loyalties. It is gone. over. done. There is pain, disappointment, a grieving time, then healing. This we understand.
But what of the love that grows, becomes dear and captures your affections and yet, it must say goodbye? What is that love? The love that declares it is doing you a favor by leaving, but that favor is the last thing in the world that is desired. The declaration of love that will always remain, but there will be no physical closeness, no promise to return, just memories. Depending on the true motive of the one doing the favor, which heart mourns the most?
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:” (Genesis 1:26). The capacity to feel these deep emotions of the heart come from our creator. He understands the deepest needs of the heart for love, for he is love. He also understood the season for love: “…when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law..” (Galations 4:4). He understands that the appreciation for his gift of love is an individual heart matter. “He came unto his own, and his own receive him not. But as many as receive him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:” (John 1:11-12). We know that his gift of love does not have to be received, through his son, Jesus Christ. We have the right of refusal. However, those who do receive his gift, they enter into a long term relationship and are adopted into God’s family. Receiving Jesus Christ is believing he came from God and is God, and confessing that belief.  “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal live. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in should not perish, but have everlasting Life.” (John 3:15-16). When a person believes unto salvation, they experience a spiritual birth, and are born of the water and of the Spirit (John 3:5). God’s spirit in you will then bear witness to your spirit. “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.” (II Corinthians 1:20-22). God likens this to being a sheep that can hear the shepherds voice and they follow Him (John 10:27).
Here then is a beautiful opportunity for your heart to experience the bloom of the spring garden of love forever! You will never get a “dear john” letter, or a sympathy card. The love of God for you, through his Son, Jesus Christ, will never do you a favor, and leave. He will not leave you behind with bittersweet memories. He won’t wish you well, or hope for the best as you try to move forward alone. In fact, because you are born of His Spirit and forever his, you can never be far from him.  “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:35-39).
Jesus Christ is not worried about being in your way, or looking to do you a favor by getting out of your way…No, He is THE WAY! He does not want you to be troubled, as he is preparing a special place for you to abide with him always (see John 14: 1-6).  Why not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ today, and experience a true love song that gives deep abiding everlasting joy?