A Legacy of Love

A Legacy of Love


Life is for love. We live to love. Love is so important. “God is love” as quoted from the bible. “We love each other because He loved us first” (1 John 4:19). The love which flows in our hearts when we are dwelt by the Holy Spirit is not a general one but a specific one – the love of Christ. This love dulls the edge of disappointment and enables us to be invulnerable to many things, not least of appreciation.

God’s love is eternal, his love is kind, his love is forgiving and his love is giving. Each of love is rebellious and stubborn, we want to live the life we set out to live. Our sin separates us from God and His love. However when we confess our sins to God, he forgives them, and as a results gives us salvation from hell. Eternal life – God’s life to us both on this earth and in heaven – is now our personal passion. He gave his only begotten son that only through death it is the only way to live eternally with him and show how great god’s love is for us.

We can experience agape love when we come into a personal relationship with Christ. The bible tells us that forgiveness and eternal life are ours simply by putting our faith in him. Once we trust him for his love and forgiveness, you will begin to experience a personal relationship and growing intimacy with HIM that lasts not only for a lifetime but also for eternity.

We may think that god’s love for you is always unconditional, dependant on your feelings of closeness to HIM. No matter how you feel, his agape love for you is always unconditional. If you sin, confess those sins to Him and he will forgive. However if you refuse to obey Him, he will discipline you as a father disciplines a child. Remember, his love for you does not diminish with time or circumstances.

When you realize this, you will know that you are totally loved. You don’t need to reach out desperately to others to receive love. You have unconditional agape love from God, full and flowing over, enough to give to others, whether or not you receive love from them. God gives us the grace to love as he loves, to forgives as he forgives, to think as he thinks and to acts as he acts. The Lord loves righteousness and hates wickedness. Kindness to others, whether strangers or neighbours, is a gift from God. Each time we reach out our hand to help another, we are spread his Love and kindness.