Loving to Be Loved

Loving to Be Loved

How many people do you know that love to be loved?  Out of those people, how many, including yourself do you know that are willing to accept "true" love or something that resembles loves, but couldn't be further from the truth.  In society today that word love is sorely overused and misused.  We were created to want to be loved; however the true love that we crave is the love that God gives.  Not understanding or knowing the true love of The Lord can lead people astray.  The world gives examples daily on the incorrect definition of love and how it effects individuals in many different ways.  I'm going to just list a few ways that people utilize love incorrectly, sometimes to death...

A) Buying love

B) Using sex

C) Physical or Mental Abuse

D) Control

E) Manipulation

F) Threatening of all sorts

These are just to name a few.  However, once you find the love of Christ and you study the Word of God, you will begin to understand what true love is "Agape", because that is how He loves us.  Once you have truly learned how God feels about you, it will become difficult to receive anything less than how God wants you to be loved.  Also, it will teach you how to properly love other people.  I'm not saying that it is magic and you won't make mistakes but you will have a true example of what love is.  I learned late in life how to love myself because I would often equate physical affection as love, which later down the road led me into a lot of unwanted trouble and low self-esteem.   Another important aspect of love is that we must truly love ourselves and who God created us to be.  One of the worse things to do is to compare yourself with someone else.  Enjoy the person that God created you to be and allow Him to make the necessary changes in your life for His honor and glory.  Remember, God made no mistakes when you were made because He knew you at the beginning of creation.  Think about it...your eye color, hair color, skin color, your height, etc. were all hand created by God.  We are God's unique and beautiful masterpieces.  How awesome is that?  So before you down yourself for any reason, whether it be a set back, something that you consider a flaw & God considers uniqueness, remember the love and detail that went into creating you.  Love you!!