The reason I believe.
I believe because of this indestructible, life-giving love.
It’s curious; I received Love, then I met Him. God loved me first, but I come to understand His love as I do it.
Imagine being healed. That’s amazing. But what is even more miraculous is being made capable of doing it.
I could dismiss being healed as a fluke or by attributing it to another cause, but to be able to do it (love) consistently is evidence and removes any doubt.
Jesus’s words are true,
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
— Acts 20:35
Because He loved me, now I can love with this indestructible, life-giving love, even toward those who are hateful toward me—utterly amazing, because I know how selfish I am.
It’s like a superpower.
I readily admit that I do it imperfectly, but His love is sanctifying. As He loves me, as I love others and I love Him, I’m being sanctified and my love is being perfected.
It’s a love that may start rough but still accomplishes its purpose (life), is being perfected as it continues, and it never ends.
“Love never fails.”
– 1 Corinthians 13:8
Hallelujah.
This is my experience. This is my testimony.
This is one of many reasons for my faith.
I’ve been told that this is my subjective experience and does not point to any objective reality.
I do not deny that it is my subjective experience. We may both know my wife, but my experience of her does not match your experience of her—subjective. We all experience a person subjectively, that doesn’t make them any less objective and real.
I can no more deny the person of Love than I can the love of my life.
God is love.
“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.”
— 1 John 4:7-8
Growing in love: learning more and more of His love for me, and loving others more and more—these things working in tandem—has been for me the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
#perfectourlove #love #testimony
P.S. Thank you, Pastor Jones, for being the vessel I received Christ and His love through.