On this Valentine’s Day as you may think about love, those that you love or even the ones that love you, I want you to think about the gift of love that we have and which we take for granted everyday of our lives. That’s right! We take it for granted everyday. Bible says that God is love [1John 4:7-10], and because God is love we can all get to know Him, not only through a mind-set commitment, but also through our hearts and the feeling of love that we have when He speaks to us, touches us or even uses others as our friends and spouses to show us His real love- Himself. How does He show Himself to us from the day, in the most obvious way ever and how do we take it for granted?
The most beautiful book about creation, in the history of eternal truth and temporary world has the answer. “God spoke, ‘Let us make human beings in OUR IMAGE, make them REFLECTING our NATURE…’” [Genesis 1:26- MRemix]. You and I are made in the IMAGE of the Most Holy God- the Creator of all things visible and invisible, the designer of beauty and the ultimate Lover, who by filling us with His image, enabled us to love and to receive love. You and I show each other who God is, how He may look spiritually, how beautiful He is physically, how concerned He is with our daily affairs, how He can think, how He can make decisions, how He can create and how He can love and everything else that He can be, that we are and may become. You and I are walking realities of God’s presence in the universe and earth, in your home and in your school- everywhere! AHHHH!!!! Moreover, you and I reflect in our specific ways who God is and how He loves us. Through my friends, I get to know God in a way that only they can show Him to me, because He made them differently than He made me, for the purpose of loving one another, so that He could be revealed to us and made real- by the definition as we know ‘real’. Furthermore, He put us in life together, because He has a greater plan in mind from that meeting for our lives- can you believe that?! It is through my dear friends who are in love with God and who love me that I can be encouraged, kept accountable, strengthened and drawn closer to the Creator, because I then begin to see His image and character in my friends! Then you can think that you as a creation, believing or not believing, you are made in God’s image, because you ARE! Everything that is came from Him and you are because He made you… in His image… to reflect His nature… and His nature is …. Love…not selfishness or lust…. But LOVE. You and I ought to love and not worry about religion, but love others and love our God Almighty, the one who made you and I. So since you are made in His image, your friends will get to see Him through you… think abut this. How do you live your life in a way that it reflects God’s nature and honorably represents God’s image in you? For me to carry His image with me, wherever I go is a great honor. Honor that I don’t deserve. Honor that His love gives me.
I don’t want to talk much more here, but I really want to encourage you to think about this great gift that we have received in the beginning of times and get to enjoy everyday of our lives. Made in God’s image and reflecting His nature, are some of the greatest gifts of love that one can know and be given. His grace on me alone is so great that I continue to have this gift today, because I am able to live for Him this very moment. What a gift of love, seen in you and me, and in our friends, every time we see them, talk to them, or hear from them and yet we take it for granted, because we don’t take the time to think about it for a while and then see it everywhere we go. If you have spent some time thinking about that verse, and the idea of His image I encourage you to take this beautiful gift everywhere you go and share it with your friends. Tell them how beautiful they are, how they love you and how you ought to love them back, because that is what it means to be made by God- in His image and for God- to reflect His nature. His nature is … love. “For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other.” [1John 3:11 MRemix].
The most beautiful book about creation, in the history of eternal truth and temporary world has the answer. “God spoke, ‘Let us make human beings in OUR IMAGE, make them REFLECTING our NATURE…’” [Genesis 1:26- MRemix]. You and I are made in the IMAGE of the Most Holy God- the Creator of all things visible and invisible, the designer of beauty and the ultimate Lover, who by filling us with His image, enabled us to love and to receive love. You and I show each other who God is, how He may look spiritually, how beautiful He is physically, how concerned He is with our daily affairs, how He can think, how He can make decisions, how He can create and how He can love and everything else that He can be, that we are and may become. You and I are walking realities of God’s presence in the universe and earth, in your home and in your school- everywhere! AHHHH!!!! Moreover, you and I reflect in our specific ways who God is and how He loves us. Through my friends, I get to know God in a way that only they can show Him to me, because He made them differently than He made me, for the purpose of loving one another, so that He could be revealed to us and made real- by the definition as we know ‘real’. Furthermore, He put us in life together, because He has a greater plan in mind from that meeting for our lives- can you believe that?! It is through my dear friends who are in love with God and who love me that I can be encouraged, kept accountable, strengthened and drawn closer to the Creator, because I then begin to see His image and character in my friends! Then you can think that you as a creation, believing or not believing, you are made in God’s image, because you ARE! Everything that is came from Him and you are because He made you… in His image… to reflect His nature… and His nature is …. Love…not selfishness or lust…. But LOVE. You and I ought to love and not worry about religion, but love others and love our God Almighty, the one who made you and I. So since you are made in His image, your friends will get to see Him through you… think abut this. How do you live your life in a way that it reflects God’s nature and honorably represents God’s image in you? For me to carry His image with me, wherever I go is a great honor. Honor that I don’t deserve. Honor that His love gives me.
I don’t want to talk much more here, but I really want to encourage you to think about this great gift that we have received in the beginning of times and get to enjoy everyday of our lives. Made in God’s image and reflecting His nature, are some of the greatest gifts of love that one can know and be given. His grace on me alone is so great that I continue to have this gift today, because I am able to live for Him this very moment. What a gift of love, seen in you and me, and in our friends, every time we see them, talk to them, or hear from them and yet we take it for granted, because we don’t take the time to think about it for a while and then see it everywhere we go. If you have spent some time thinking about that verse, and the idea of His image I encourage you to take this beautiful gift everywhere you go and share it with your friends. Tell them how beautiful they are, how they love you and how you ought to love them back, because that is what it means to be made by God- in His image and for God- to reflect His nature. His nature is … love. “For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other.” [1John 3:11 MRemix].
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