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1 John 4: 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Throughout scripture we are assured of God’s love and we are reminded that the proof of God’s love is that Christ died for us.

As Romans 5:8 tells us; “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Yet so many people live by their feelings…

Just listen and you’ll hear people talk about how they feel all the time.

For example, how often are you asked how you feel about things.

Even when it comes to the things of God I often hear people say something along these lines: I don’t feel that God wants me to be involved. Or I’ll pray about it and see how I feel.

But love is so much more than feelings or even a fondness toward someone or something.

In fact, feelings have little to do with love.

We have to learn not to live by our feelings.

You see, if we let our feelings be the deciding factor… there is a good possibility that we will decide not to do what we need to do or what we have been asked to do.

          There is a difference between feelings and love.

We must live beyond our feelings and do what's right even when we don’t feel like it…  our feelings must never dictate how we treat people, or how we speak to them… or our obedience to God.

If we allow our feelings to control our life…then we are serving the god of our feelings, not the God of the Bible.

The Word of God [Bible] is to affect all of our decisions.

Our scripture verse today, is calling for us to live in love…

for when we live in love…  we live in God.

There was a song a quite few years ago that said that “God was watching us from a distance.”  

God is not watching us from a distance, but is closer to us than we could possibly imagine.

Please listen carefully to what I’m about to say…

His first priority is not that we save the world.

but that we receive His love and simply love Him back.

Our hearts must be like a sponge and take in the extravagant love of God personally and intimately.

before long, it will begin to seep out and into our lives in a way that is able to truly impact the world around us.

The key here is refusing to be passive.

By “being passive” I mean we cannot wait for an outside force to move us or to wait until we feel like doing something.

We must make a conscious decision to do what’s right regardless of our feelings.

We are to use our will and choose, what is right.

Our Father love us unconditionally and without limit.

Allow your heart to soak in His love…like a sponge…  every day. 

And I pray that through the power of the Holy Spirit, that each one of us is able to comprehend how deep and high and wide and long the Father’s love is for us as expressed in Jesus.

God Bless!