"Reduce Me to Love"

"Love is the energy of life. 

It is what motivates people to get up each day and keep going. 

Love gives life purpose and meaning. 

The world is looking for love, but what they are really 

looking for is God, because God is love

Here lately I have just been thinking about how amazing God's love is!!! His love is the most amazing thing I have encountered throughout my life. "Love can melt the hardest heart, it can heal the wounds of a broken heart and it can quiet the fears of the anxious heart." Once you have encountered the love of God you are never the same.. you may fall short but you are never the same. His love is so amazing I can't even begin to grasp every aspect of it! When I think about God's love for us I begin to think about everything that comes from His love. Joy and peace in my life being two of my favorite things that come from God's love! "Love is the fruit of the spirit" .. all the other fruits of the spirit come from love! God can give us a joy and a peace in our life that nothing else can come close to! The quicker we learn to turn people and situations over to the Lord, the quicker we start enjoying a peaceful & fruitful life. If you think about it everything you love or loves you comes from God! Nothing can make you as happy as God's love or bless you in the ways He does! All the blessings He pours out are from the unconditional love He has for us! God's amazing love has been so clear to me lately. It seems every book I pick up has in some way been speaking to my heart about the love of God. Recently I read 2 books about doing things out of love. My husband often thinks I go in some situations way over my head(& sometimes i do) trying to help someone.. he never is speaking about it in a negative way.. but sometimes he asks me how can you try to help someone in ways that they do not even want to help themselves or they probably would not do the same for you. I assure him it is fine.. not a big deal and when my heart is set on doing something I just have to do it! God programmed me that way.. I can not help it..lol! I just love looking at the world in a entire different way! Once you realize that you are loved by God, not because of anything you are or anything you have done, then you can quit trying to deserve  his love or earn his love and simply receive it and enjoy it! God's love has covered my life and I think it is so wonderful! I wish more people would do more things out of love! "We need to understand God loves us and accept his love. When we do we begin a love walk that causes us to live in a new way-- a new way of thinking, a new way of speaking and a new way of acting." Do not expect a pat on the back every time you help someone out. Doing things out of love is one of our God given purposes. Just simply do things out of love .. little things .. big things .. anything:) .. God sees you when others do not .. He is more than proud of us! If you are continually looking for that pat on the back or that acknowledgement then maybe just maybe your heart was not fully in whatever you were doing in the first place. Just my opinion though :) ok back to that books I picked up ...... there is no way either of the books or both of them combined could cover all areas of God's love, but it covered many of them and the next little part of my post is about one that stuck out to me. That part in the book was about trying to love the unloving.. I thought to myself gah how I could relate!! lol... sometimes I find myself trying to love people who are hard as tar to love :)! I thought about how we as humans want to just give up on those people but God calls us to keep on loving... "Most people who are hard to love have suffered so much pain along the road of life that it has altered their personality. Outwardly they may seem hard and bitter, but inwarldly they are crying out for love." "Learning about love can move you from hatred to bitterness..then to mild resentment and finally to freedom, which comes only through forgiveness." That part of the book went on to explain in comparison how God must feel.. He does just that & he does it all the time .. He sincerely loves the unloving! We are all unloving at times... go ahead and admit it! :) God is love, and He forgives and forgets. If we want to be like Him, then we must develop the same habit. I just never thought of it completely in that way until after reading that and it opened my heart once again to how amazing God's love is!!!! "All of us must become students of love; we must pray that God reduces us to love."