True Love

Written by: Cenia Means Masterson

While most people today would define love as a feeling, Jesus Christ defines it quite differently. 

Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Joh 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: 

Jesus defines love for Him as obedience to Him. We may say that we love Jesus, but our lifestyle will reveal whether our love is really true or not. True love is the perfect love that motivated Jesus to surrender His back to the beating and His life to the cross for us. 

Joh 15:13-14 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
He asks nothing more and deserves nothing less than our love in return, but the love He asks for, the love He is worthy of, isn’t just lip service. It is life service. 

Luk 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Will we deny the passions and pleasures of sin for a season to live a life of obedience and full devotion to Him or do we love self more than Jesus? Jesus asked Simon Peter a simple question that we, who claim to love Him, should ask ourselves as well.

John 21:16 Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?
Do we?

Love God and Love People

This is the month that the world celebrates LOVE, welcome to February. Although Valentines Day is one of my favorite holidays and I too enjoy all the LOVE and hearts everywhere, I still anchor my life in my calling; 

"Love God and Love People". 

 As I read scripture on LOVE which by the way there are (687) verses on LOVE in the Bible, I find what Jesus said in Matthew 22:36-39 ESV to be ALL of our life callings and something we must all with God's help work on. 

36) "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37) And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38) This is the great and first commandment. 39) And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 

My prayer for you today is that you would really seek God and ask Him how to LOVE Him and others. Its really important to introspect in this area, since life truly is just about Loving God and Loving People, it will be the only thing that will matter in the end.

1 John 4:16 ESV

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

And finally; 

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three, but the greatest is LOVE.

Much LOVE to you through Christ Our Lord,

Pink Love Ministries