“Real Love Will Cost Us…”

Posted on Nov 30, 2015 in Devotions |

lord enlighten our hearts to love
 
 
by Dona Hake
 
 
 
 
 
 

Can we ever meditate upon the love of God too much? Absolutely not! Let us continue to seek the depths of His love for there is no end to it … .the depths of His love are beyond our comprehension. His love is unfathomable. Love conquers all and God’s love covers all things. God desires that His conquering love flow through us yet there are times His love is not able to flow freely. If we do not desire to look beyond our own little world, how is He able to love through us and touch a lost  and dying world? There is a cost to loving like Jesus, and it is a matter letting go of that which is holding us back. In the book of Luke he wrote “If you love only someone who loves you, will God praise you for that? Even sinners love people who love them. ”   I love the following quote by Mother Teresa, and it fits perfectly with our devotional today …

 

 

 

“Love,

to be real,

must cost –

it must hurt –

                                 us must empty it of self.”       Mother Teresa
 
 
 
 
 
 
God is calling us to the high places of His love. He is calling us to the deeper places of His love, and yes … if you desire to go to those places, there will be a cost. I leave you with a wonderful portion of scriptures to meditate upon regarding the love of God. These scriptures show us what His love is and what it is not.
 
 
 
 

1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 (DARBY)

4 “Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous [of others]; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,

5 does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

6 does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,

7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails … “
 
 
 
 
 

Let us desire today that God’s true and real love flows through us in every way possible. Lord help us to desire to pay the cost even when it hurts. Cause us to see that which hinders us from loving like You and empty us of those things! We are believing that you are well able to do above and beyond all we dare ask or think regarding Your love operating through us!  In Jesus Name we desire this, amen!