If There be Nothing Else

Misty Edwards- Eternity

If there be no other thing that we have learned let it be love. Love for Christ. Let us be a people that dream dreams of love and have visions of love. Let us be known by how we have love God, how we have sacrificed to minister to the heart of God; by how we have laid down our life so that His life may be made whole in us. But what is it to love God? John 14:15 says this: “If you love Me, you will keep My commands.” His commanded us to love God with all of our heart, mind, and soul, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. It goes in this huge circle: love, obey, love, obey, love, obey. Love. Jesus is the perfect example, the perfect fulfillment of this command. It is only we learn how to love God with everything that we begin to grasp the edges of loving our neighbor. To love God we place everything under Him, He is first, in everything. The first portion, the first priority, the first love, the first Father, the first Friend- we live to lay down everything to serve the heart of God. Then out of that overflow of God’s love in us we begin to serve others. We lay down our life for our brother following the example of our Father and Creator. If there is nothing else that we grasp, in this God thing, let it be love. If we became a people that truly loved with everything, relentlessly, passionately, to death, it would shake the foundations of the world and cause this world to tremble. Christ loved and He forever took victory over sin and death. And this love, this conquering love, is outside the bounds of time and lays the foundation for eternity. This love counts, it destroys every work of the enemy and establishes the Kingdom of Heaven on earth- it brings heaven down. Let us learn to love it is the plea from the heart of God- to love and conquer like Him.