Believing in and Experiencing God's Love

Now, I cannot even begin to say how God came to be-He just is. It is beyond me to fathom beyond God. Perhaps that is because I see all life as contained in Him. And nothing that exists can exist outside Him.

'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.' Acts 17:28

Anyway, to start with, I accept this premise: that there is a substance called Energy in our universe and it is intelligent, it is relational, it is unconditional love and I, along with millions of others, call it God. Down through the ages people have experienced and documented personal encounters of such substance that you could never convince them that the God they know and love is not real. I am one of these and I am truly humbled by the various experiences I have been graced to experientially know and hope with all my heart that I can, in some small way, generate a desire within any and all I encounter to meet with God in some similar kind of way-because I know what great joy and peace it has brought to me.

Over my life time, from my earliest memories up till today, I have sought to know and understand God's love for me and the way it works in and through my life. I have taken a lot of circular journeys and I guess, there are lot more to come, but at this point right here, I'd like to share how I see things now. Even if you don't agree with me on all these points, I hope you are able to see the things that really matter- and believe them.

1. How much God loves you

2. Why He came in the form of Jesus and

3. How knowing and relying on this love changes everything forever.

In the 'beginning'... my simplified paraphrase.

A long time ago (and in spite of the arguments, it really doesn't matter when), God, who is all and is in all, decided to have a family. Why? I think we can answer a lot of things about God, when we simply consider ourselves. Why do we want family? Why do we want relationships? It feels good to connect and share experiences.

Well, I think, it's because God wanted someone like himself to relate to. He's one of a kind. I'm not trying to disentangle the triune aspect of God here, but suffice it to say, the Trinity is ONE consciousness. There was no other 'like God' that had a separate consciousness centre until Adam- the first man. When God breathed into Adam and he became a living soul, God finally had a friend 'of his own kind'-capable of giving and receiving love on a spiritual plane. Also, 'life begets life' (one of my sayings) and something in us wants to expand and grow and multiply.

God also immediately appreciated that Adam would need someone to share with in this way too, because although he was spiritual and could fellowship with God, he was also physical and needed someone to commune with via those senses. God gave Him Eve.

Now, here's the important thing: Adam came from God-the same way a droplet of water comes from the ocean-but when that tiny 'seed' from God was clothed in flesh, it had the ability to think independently of its Father Creator, and for the first time, experienced some level of autonomy. This is why Adam was created, so God could enjoy fellowshipping WITH someone who chose to, and had the capacity to love him back the same way (but this is also why they could fall for the lie of being apart from God). This is why God 'gave birth' to himself in the flesh. God saw himself in his creation and loved them. Every human being that has come forth into life on planet earth is an individuated fragment of what was the SINGLE consciousness we call God, just like Adam and Eve.

Having the ability to think freely and responsibly care for their environment and for humankind to genuinely love the Father, there needed to be a choice not to. This choice is what is represented by the two trees in the Garden of Eden. The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

I know, for a long time, I pondered how these trees could represent contrast and I have explored many layers of possibility.

I had no trouble understanding the tree of Life as being all the good that is in existence, including immortality, but how could knowing about good and evil become an opposing power to love and life?Weren't we supposed to study to know what was 'good' so we could be 'pleasing'? And so we could feel happy?

Apparently not. We were pleasing and loved and enjoyed without knowing any of those 'rules'. This is the climate of unconditional love. This is the truth of who we are and what we have in and with God, when we know we are loved. We are free to give and receive love without any thought of self at all-other than to BE. FREEDOM from all condemnation, fear, lack (inadequacy), guilt, self abasement and scrutiny was to be our experience. Total peace and wholeness.

The reason the trees represent opposing states is because the first represents life in the light of God's love, connected in that ONE consciousness, at peace and whole. The second presents existence in the absence of it and is brought about through believing in the ILLUSION of separation. The only reason Adam and Eve ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil was because they yielded to the notion that they were not already 'like God'(Gen 3:4), possibly because they had bodies. Well, some would say Eve fell for the lie but Adam didn't want to feel separated from Eve, and chose to follow her lead instead of being the leader. It was an issue of identity on both counts. The 'fall of man' was the severance of man from the ONE spiritual consciousness into a place of fear. Fear comes because the consciousness has disconnected from Love and become physically oriented, 'self' centred and self condemning. The EGO is born. It was not God that made Adam and Eve feel this way, but the alienation brought about by their own 'separate' thinking.

"There is no fear in Love. Perfect love casts out fear because fear has to do with punishment" I John 4:18

"Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour."

Col 1:21 ('evil' being that which is born from FEAR-for the thoughts that inspired the behaviour came from that which is not love).

Once the sense of separation took them down in their thinking, the process of separation from LIFE simply continued, eventually destroying the flesh that would otherwise have continued on untouched by sickness or age. This state of separation, being what they now knew as their reality was then passed on from generation to generation, taking a firmer grip with each cycle and continuing to shorten the average life length. In some ways, we could say it peaked, manifesting in the enslavement of Israel by the Pharaoh.The inner state had become the outer condition.

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GOD IS GOOD

When something awful happens the first person that often gets blamed is God. Some catastrophes are actually called "acts of God." But the Bible tells us that the Lord is GOOD.

Because God is all knowing and all powerful, I guess it's natural for you to believe that sickness, disease and other devastating events are ordained by Him. But let me remind you that you have an enemy that wages war against you every day. I believe he is the author of everything terrible and tries to convince you that God is behind it all.

It's a strategy the devil has used for years and it keeps God's children from running to Him with open arms. Why would you be motivated to get to know someone who destroys homes, families, and dreams? No! John 10:10 tells us that the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. The thief is the devil. On the other hand, Jesus came to give you abundant life.

Some Christians believe that God allows catastrophe to teach them a lesson. But I want you to ask yourself this question. If you could, would you use a life threatening illness or a flood to teach your child a lesson? I don't think so. You want the best for your children. If you are a good parent, you will correct your child, but you wouldn't put something on them that has the potential to destroy them. If you being human wouldn't consider using devastation to teach your children, God, the best parent of all, certainly wouldn't. As one Bible teacher explained, that would be child abuse.

Let me say it again. The Lord is GOOD. You are His precious child and He wants the best for you.

Beloved, make it your endeavor to know God as He wants to be known. God is love. God is good. In light of these qualities, check out what you are allowing in your life.

Embrace God's love and receive His goodness by declaring it over your life each day. When you do, you'll find it easier to trust the Lord because you'll be convinced He has your best interest at heart.

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GOD IS LOVE

Everything God has done, is doing and will do for you is motivated by love. He went to the cross for you because of love. He has given you more than 3,000 promises that address every aspect of your life because of love.

Notice that God doesn't just give love, He IS love. I guess you can say God is made of love.

The definition of love is noted in I Corinthians 13. We can apply all of these attributes to God. God is patient, kind, humble, seeks not His own. Think about that last one for a minute. All of God's commandments and His individual guidance is for YOUR benefit, not His.

Has the enemy of your soul ever tried to convince you that God doesn't think much of you? Don't believe it for a second! God NEVER thinks evil of you.

God loves truth. He "bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, His hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and He endures everything [without weakening]. GOD NEVER FAILS" - I Corinthians 13:7-8a, Amplified Bible.

This kind of love flows to you every day. You ought to remind yourself of that and embrace it.

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Know God As He Wants to Be Known

Do you know God as He wants to be known? Are you intimately acquainted with His true nature? To know God as He really is will draw you into a more intimate relationship with Him.

The study of the holy bible is going to help dispel any wrong notions you might have. It's going to help you know God and love Him more deeply.

To know God as He really is will also help you discern what is of God and what is not. It will uncover the work of the devil in your life so that you can use your authority to drive him out.

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Does God Really Love People?

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life - John 3:16 (KJV). Yes, God truly loves the world. Circumstances, experiences of people, wrong information and lack of the knowledge of God have made people to wonder whether God really loves people. This article is to assure you that God surely loves and cares for people.

People for one reason or another, doubt God's love for them. Some people conclude on the nature of God by comparing Him with men who are in positions as fathers in their lives and do not love people. These are men who do not understand what it means to be a father and have failed as fathers.

Also, the perspective of people of God as one autocratic god, who has a sledge-hammer ever ready to use it without mercy, contributes to them doubting God's love. Yes, God disciplines us, as a true father should, but with the other hand He comforts us and guides us on the right path to take.

Now, an understanding of God and His love for people will wipe away all fears and misunderstandings.

God is love(1 John 4:8). It is God's nature to love. He doesn't just love people, He is love personified. And just like 2 Timothy 2:13 says, God will not deny Himself even if we don't believe. God doesn't wait for us to love Him first before He showers His love on us. If we are sincere, we will recount times that unexpected good things happened to us despite the wrong actions we took - that was God's love in action.

God loves sinners but hates sin. God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us - Romans 5:8 (AMP). This fact was also demonstrated in the story of Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10), when Jesus visited and ate in his house. He was referred to as a sinner by people, yet Jesus ate in his house. And this love shown to him by Jesus made him turn from his evil ways. God is interested in us turning away from our sins more than in punishing us.

His love overshadows judgment. Surely whatever we sow we will reap but in the midst of the judgment God still showers us with His love. For instance, when Adam disobeyed God and obeyed the devil, God pronounced judgment on him and Eve and at the same time, made skin clothing for them, better than the leaves they were trying to use to cover themselves (Genesis 3:7,16-21).

The challenge is that guilt turns off the manifestation of God's love. When you dwell on the wrong you committed, you give the enemy the opportunity to lie to you. You will start thinking that God can't love people like you. Next, you will start expecting evil to happen to you, etc. All these will not allow you to see God reaching out to help you. Yes, He hates what you did but He still loves you.

An illustration of this truth is seen in the story of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32). When he put aside the guilt and reached out for his father, he got more than he bargained for. His father, who was longing for his return, restored him as a son. Yes, he lost his own share of the inheritance but he was welcomed home. Now, he can gradually but comfortably build up wealth for himself again.

Furthermore, adulterated information lies about God's love for people. "Faith comes by hearing..." (Romans 10:17). So also doubt comes by hearing. What you hear affects your belief system. Evil stories people hear about God paint pictures of a god that does not love people. The best place to get correct information about God is in the word of God (Bible). The bible paints the correct picture of God and His love for people.

Truly, lack of the knowledge of God is the root cause of doubt about God's genuine love for people. When you know God and experience Him, no one will ever dissuade you from believing in His love again.

Many times I have gone through challenges, but the knowledge of God's love for me keeps me steady. It also gives me the strength to reach out to Him for help. And He has never failed me. The answer may not have come immediately but I always came out victorious. One thing I am very sure of in my life is that God loves me and loves everybody.

In conclusion, God really loves people. No matter what you may be going through now or what people are saying about God, God's love for people is real and assured.

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God And Love

When it comes to God And love, God's love toward us is that of a father toward his children. ( Matt. 5:45) "That you may be sons of your Father in heaven." He spares nothing that is for our good, no matter what the price is. God gave His only - begotten Son, Jesus Christ who died for our sins that we may be saved. (Rom.5:8) God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. This was an exercise of the Divine will in deliberate choice, made without assignable cause save that which lies in the nature of God Himself.

( Matt 5:44) Jesus commanded: "Love your enemies." God Himself established the principle, as the apostle Paul states: (Rom 5:8-10) "God recommends His own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us... For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life". A wonderful instance of God and love is God's dealing with Saul of Tarsus who became the apostle Paul (Acts 9:1-16). Loving our enemies, therefore, should be governed by the principle established by God and be exercised in obedience to His commandments, whether or not such love is accompanied by any warmth or affection.

A dictionary definition of love is: A feeling of warm, personal attachment of deep affection, as for a friend, for a parent or child, and so forth; also, the benevolent affection of God for His creatures or the reverent affection due from them to God; also, the kindly affection properly expressed by God's creatures toward one another. One of the synonyms for love is "devotion."

The Scriptures use "love" in all the forgoing meanings, and also add to the meaning of the word. Aside from those meanings, the Scriptures speak also of love guided by principle, as love of righteousness or even love for one's enemies, for whom a person may not have affection. This facet or expression of love is an unselfish devotion to righteousness and a sincere concern for the lasting welfare of others, along with an active expression of this for their good.

All mankind, even a person's own enemies, are to be loved and Christian works are to be exercised toward them. (Luke: 6:35-36) says: "Love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful." The Bible, commenting on the fruits of the spirit, of which love is first, says: "Against such things there is no law." (Gal.5:22-23) says: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control." This love has no law that can limit it. It may be practiced at any time or place to any extent toward those to whom it is due. In fact, the only debt Christians should be owing one another is love. (Rom. 13:8) says: "Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law." This love for one another is an identifying mark of true Christians.- John 13:8.

As to God and Love we can be sure that love is of God. The apostle Paul writes: "God is love." (1 John 4:8) says: "He who does not love does not know God, for God is love." He also has other attributes, among them justice, power and wisdom. (Deut, 32:4) says: He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He. (Job. 36:22) says: "Behold, God is exalted by His power; Who teaches like Him?" (Rev, 7:12) says "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, Thanksgiving and honor and power and might, Be to our God forever and ever. Amen."

As for God and love, God also has the capacity to hate, a quality the very opposite of love. His love of righteousness requires his hatred of wickedness. ( Deut. 12:31) says: "You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way; for every abomination to the Lord which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods." (Prov. 6:16) says: "These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him."

How to love God is the ability to come to know God as oneself. Love can come only by seeking and following God's spirit and the knowledge that comes from His Word. Love must be first to God, above all others. Otherwise, it will become misdirected. Knowing God's purposes is essential, because one knows then what is best for his own welfare and that of others and will know how to express love in the proper way. This love to God is described in the Bible as loving Him with one's whole heart, mind, soul and strength.' (Matt. 22:36-38).

Love is primarily a quality of the heart. (1 Pet. 1:22) says: "Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart." We must know God and his qualities, and his purposes, and how he expresses them. (1 John. 4:7-8) says: "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love."

When it comes to God's children, sometimes we ask, "What is God's love for me?". We can rest assured on the evidence our God and Creator of the universe is love in abundance. This can be seen in His creation itself. With what remarkable care it has been made for our health and welfare. God made us, not only to exist, but to enjoy the countless delights of living. Moreover God displayed His love in making man in His image and likeness.(Gen.1:26) says: "Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

Crd: Francis Hirak

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Believing God's Love for You

God's love for us is everlasting. That means that God's love for us existed before we were born and will exist after we have died. It is an eternal love in which we are embraced. ~ Henri J. M. Nouwen

If there's one thing you need to know above all others it's that God loves you. Yes, you! No matter what you've done or not done, said or not said, God loves you! He delights in you as His favorite child (of course, He has lots of those, but that's OK).

Consider these verses:

• He delivered me, because He delighted in me ~ 2 Sam. 22:20

• Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee ~ I Kings 10:9

• ... to the saints that are in the earth... is all My delight ~ Ps. 16:3

Even His correction is a sign of His love: For whom the Lord loveth he corrects; even as a father the son in whom He delights (Prov. 3:12). The Bible says He also delights in your prayers! (Prov. 15:8) Like any parent, He probably sits in heaven, saying, "Look there! That's my child! I sure do love that kid!"

His love is all-encompassing. All the other characteristics of God flow from His great heart of Love.

For instance, the Bible says God,... is rich in mercy, for [because of] his great love wherewith He loved us (Eph. 2:4-5). His mercy is so rich and abundant it is new every morning! No matter what you might do or say today, no matter what you might regret or wish you could undo, He's already forgiven you for it. Every day - just like manna - you get a fresh dose of mercy. You are pre-forgiven for everything... because He loves you. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting (Ps. 103:17).

Healing, physical, mental and emotional, flows from God's heart of Love. During Jesus' time on earth, He healed them all - huge crowds, many times. No disease, debilitation or disaster was too great. He never said, "No, I can't" or "No, I won't." The Bible says God was 'well pleased' with Him (Matt. 17:5). That means God is pleased when you are healed and well! Jeremiah affirmed that God will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds (v. 30:17). Why? Because He loves you.

Psalm 29 says the LORD will bless His people with peace (v. 11), so apparently peace is a blessing from God. Psalm 85, says He will speak peace unto His people, and to His saints (v. 8). Do you understand the power that is released when God speaks? He said, "Let there be light", and light erupted across the universe and beyond. It's probably still expanding! Well, He's spoken 'PEACE' unto you. Why? Because He loves you! Peace be to [you], and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (Eph. 6:23).

... He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee... (Deut. 7:13). Blessing and prosperity flow from God's great heart of love. He wants to see His children do well and have plenty. In fact, He wants you to have so much that you've got an abundance to give away! There are so many verses that promise blessing and prosperity. Paul said God will meet your every need (Phil 4:19). In Ephesians, he explained that God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that he, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work (v. 1:8). And Psalms says God has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant (v. 35:27). God wants to make your cup run over! Just because He loves you.

Every letter the Apostles wrote that are recorded in the New Testament start or end with an affirmation of God's grace, favor and blessing that are integral with His great love. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, Peter said. If you don't know and fully understand the love of God, you also won't know, understand and receive the blessings that are a part of His infinite love.

"God loves me." You need to say that over and over to yourself until it renews your mind to the Truth. Just the thought of it should create a stirring in your heart of hearts, a 'quickening' that attests to the reality of His love for you.

We all know the verse from John 3:16 For God so loved the world... That 'world' is you... and me and her and him and them. His love is so big and grand and encompassing, it includes even the most difficult people you know. How can you develop a deeper comprehension of His love? In this was manifested the love of God toward us: that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins (I John 4:9-10).

Read. There are dozens of Bible verses that affirm God's love for you and me. Just reading the words from His Book will build trust in your soul. You begin to develop an understanding of His great Love, compassion, mercy and peace. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God! (I John 3:1).

Meditate. Meditate simply means to focus, contemplate or reflect. Pick one or two verses each day. Roll them over and over in your thinking. Like a magnifying glass, focused attention will bring revelation and allow God to release new wisdom into your mind. Paul told Timothy to meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them (I Tim. 4:15).

Believe. Don't let doubt or fear block your understanding and acceptance of His love for you. For God has not given us the spirit of fear [fear comes from Satan], but of power and of love and of a sound mind (2 Tim. 1:7). The Apostle John explained that love casts out fear (I John 4:18). Believing God loves you unquestionably and unconditionally will drive fear away because you will know you can trust Him to take care of you. That's why Jesus specifically said not to fear or worry about what you wear or eat or need. God wants to supply it all (Phil. 4:19) because He loves you!

Pray. Have you ever noticed that Paul's prayers were always for someone else? He didn't feel the need to pray for his own needs because he trusted God's love, mercy, grace and peace to take care of him. Instead, he functioned from a place of love and obedience, praying that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment (Phil. 1:9). Pray for God to make you more aware of His love in your life. Pray that He would show you opportunities to love and bless others.

Practice. First John 4:11-12 says Beloved, [did you get that? Be loved!] if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us. As God's child, He expects you to copy Him, just like a child imitates a parent. Practice love - all the time, in every circumstance -so that you can truly say,... we have known and believed the love that God hath for us (I John 4:16).

The last part of that verse says, God is love, and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. God and His Love dwell in you - all the time! You are never without His love.

There's a principle based on the book and movie that says, 'pay it forward'. With God, that's not possible. He's way ahead of you where love and blessing are concerned. But you can study, meditate, believe, pray and practice your own love walk.

It's rather like a kid learning to ride a bicycle. That child wants to comfort of knowing Dad's got hold of the bike and is running along beside him. Develop a deeper understanding of His love, knowing that He's holding your hand and encouraging you. "You can do it!" He says to you. "And if you fall down, I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere. I'll never leave you or forsake you... because I love you."

Crd: Ruth Seebeck

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What Is God's Law of Love?

The Teachings of Jesus Concerning Love in the Gospel of Matthew

Jesus Introduces Love!

After Jesus speedily got rid of Satan in chapter four verse ten by quoting the Word of God as spoken by the prophets, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve." Satan got the point and left　Jesus. Then angels came and ministered unto Him and He began His ministry in Galilee preaching "Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand" Jesus came in preaching about a kingdom. He also said it was at hand, or, within your reach, here and now. That kingdom Jesus was talking about could only be received and entered into by repenting. Repenting of what? Sin? What was considered sin to Jesus? Anything that was against God's commandment is a sin in the eyes of God. What was God's Commandment?

Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38 This is the first and great commandment.

39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Jesus went on to hold a meeting up on a mountain with His disciples in chapters 5-7 where you can read it all instead of me quoting the whole thing here, but I will mention the key parts where Jesus is trying to drive home the message of Love. Love was His message the whole time He was here on this Earth. Loving God and your neighbor, and to show us how to do it was His mission. John 3:16 says "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Jesus was preaching God's Love and that the only way to enter into eternal life was to receive this love from God, but believing in Him and God's love for them. That means to repent of the evil deeds people were doing which was all of the unloving things that hurt others.

In Matthew chapters 5-7 Jesus patiently and completely explains and teaches how to live the Love of God and how to live life under the Law of God's Love. He made it a requirement that we absolutely have to believe in His love to go to Heaven. How can you enter into a kingdom of Love if you don't believe in Love? That's just it, you can't! Jesus is saying it is impossible to go to Heaven, the Kingdom of Love, unless you change and become a child of God; a child of Love!

Jesus goes on to explain clearly in Matthew 5 what the nature of those who inherit the kingdom of Heaven should be.

3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Jesus is saying that the people who are humble, repentant, meek, hungry for the truth, merciful, pure in heart, and peacemakers will be in pretty good shape when He is deciding who to share His kingdom with. Because if you have the nature described here you have understood what God's Love means and are enacting it in your life through your words, intentions, actions and deeds. Not only this but He even says if you have been persecuted for righteousness sake, and have had all kinds of evil things said against you falsely for His sake, you should be real happy about that because when you finally do get to Heaven you will receive some great reward! If the suffering was for Jesus, preaching the Gospel, teaching the right way and you had to suffer for it somehow, Jesus will make up for it in Heaven! The Bible talks a lot about rewards in Heaven for those who overcome in this life. The Bible says that those rewards are so great that mankind cannot even imagine them as they are beyond your wildest dreams and thoughts!

He said in verse 16 to "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."

So we have a problem here sometimes. Why aren't we able to always to that? Do you ever get angry at anyone? Do you ever get bitter and want to get back at someone? Every time you do it hurts your chances of staying close to God. Jesus even said that if you are angry with your brother you will be in danger of Hell fire! That is if you don't ever repent and turn around and start going the other way and love that brother! It's all in there in chapter 5! Jesus says that if you are going to give someone a gift but you are angry with someone else, you should not give that gift to the person until you have been reconciled with the one that you are angry with. That's love! No one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes, but if we ask forgiveness and also forgive, it will be forgotten. We can start all over again! Why in the world would anyone want to carry around with them all those burdens of bitterness and hate? In Hebrews it says to lay aside the weights and sins that so easily beset us! We fall into these things so easily sometimes and then we just accept it as part of our nature. Well, I'll tell you that isn't the nature of God! That isn't being meek, humble, pure in heart and merciful!

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Looking for love in all the wrong places?

Have you been looking for love in all the wrong places and in too many faces; only to find more pain and despair?

Then it is time to find out the truth regarding your search for true love.

You don't need to engage in an endless search for Mr. or Mrs. Right, nor do you settle or compromise for any Mr. or Mrs. Right now. If you continue to search for Mr. or Mrs. Right you will inevitably lose yourself trying to please others who can never really be pleased.

When you engage in trying to satisfy the unappeasable you are doing nothing more than giving them the power to control your life. Of course the powerful one is the subtle redeemer of all your good deeds, and can effortlessly play the game all day long everyday. It's much more important to empower yourself by knowing where your love really exists, than it is to be drained of your energy or continue to feel betrayed and end up abandoned by continually giving to someone who is not giving back to you.

Instead of surviving in the lack of love where you find yourself alone, you turn your precious love and attention towards the person who most deserves it, you! So that you can become very consciously aware of any inner healing that is necessary to occur within you that has caused you to invest so much of yourself without any returns.

True Love is the remembrance and moment-to-moment application and expression of self-love. This honors the value of you, your divine magnificence.

You will want to attend to you to be sure you eliminate anything inside of you that is causing you to attract those outer relationships that are less than honorable, respectful and loving. Your healing can occur quickly; as when you are engaged in paying attention to the true love of self, your heart opens and is willing to receive.

The difficulty for most in accepting and acknowledging their own true love is due to the painful experiences from past lives and the past in this life. These experiences are encoded on a cellular level within you. You fear being fully open with your freedom of expression of self on all levels, not just due to the old painful experiences, but at the real causal level originating from when you first chose to lower your vibration to digress into matter, human form when you subscribed to incorrectly believing you are unworthy of true love.

When you incarnate, you came in with a veil of forgetfulness. You are not conscious of this veil, and thusly, you sense a separation from your source, God/Goddess.

In human form you have an ego, or the lower mental mind. This lower mental mind does not have the capacity of understanding like the universal higher mind does. The lower mind attempts to calculate and figure everything out rather than simply connecting to the inner feelings of love.

The lower mind attempting to figure out the sensation of separation, reasons that you must have done something wrong, and your abandonment is a direct punishment for your incorrectly perceived crime. The ego doesn't remember that your soul made the choice to simply experience incarnation for the very purpose of realizing the love it truly is.

Thusly, it calculates if you have done wrong you must be penalized for your wrong doing in some manner. You engage in one life experience after another punishing self in one form or another for doing nothing more than choosing life on earth.

These self-abusing experiences accumulate and compound as you continue to cycle through this incorrect belief of wrong doing punishable by whatever. What you are really unconsciously doing is creating one opportunity after another to be able to see the higher truth of being your own true love. Unfortunately, you as well as many have been stuck in this unhealthy behavior for eons

The self-punishment does have a silver lining, as a result of your multiple painful experiences, you can realize the greater truth that states you have done no wrong, the truth that states you can do no wrong because you are and have always been love. Love that is creating many experiences to realize it is love personified.

The time is now, as this is the Golden age of Heaven on Earth, where all will come to realize the truth of the true love of self.

You need not wait for anyone else to shift your incorrect beliefs into divine knowingness, nor do you need to fear them any longer. For those whom are still not ready to fully awaken to the truth will not be able to get any where near you once you choose love. When you are connected to your true love, you will not encounter these souls, as you have in the past; who are choosing to live in a lower vibration and are stuck in treating others badly because they don't value themselves to begin with.

You need not fear being vulnerable and walking with an open heart, as those who have not yet learned to love themselves simply will not cross your path. The energy of love is a far greater frequency and nothing vibrating from fear will be able to get any where near you. Love cannot encounter fear and those players who are stuck in fear will be on different grounds where they will continue to have the necessary less than loving experiences, so they can come to the same realization of remembering they were never lacking love and need not steal it from another.

When you incorrectly believe you are lacking love, you seek outside of yourself, another person, place or thing that will fulfill and satisfy this sense of lacking. You continue to pursue others one after the other in search of the love you are not willing to give yourself. Sometimes you may play the role of the victim by giving and never receiving equally in return, or you might take on the opposing role of the abuser, where you constantly take without ever being satisfied.

When you play the victim you give anyone and/or everyone the credits for your feel goods and you also project the blame for your feel bads. When you are the abuser you simply blame everyone for everything therefore righteously licensing your terrible treatment of others.

The ego is insatiable because it thrives on the sense of lack; lack is what fuels its fires and thusly you give the power to the ego of self, in your endless search of another to fulfill the very love of which you already are.

Until you are willing, as you have always been able, to stay and master the ego and its control over you and your life by realizing you are responsible for all the choices you have made; you will never come to know and live in the bliss of true love.

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