Without Love....I am nothing!

In relationships between friends and family, everything depends on their love to and for each other. Money, possessions have little value if there is no love between man and wife, or parents and children, or members of the Body of Christ! Knowledge nor enthusiasm in what God is doing means nothing without Christ’s love. In fact Paul tells us that we amount to “nothing” if we do not have love.“…though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.” (1 Corinthians 13:2).It is very clear that Christians need to experience the Love of Christ and to abide in that love more than they need to know anything else. Over the years I have come to understand that there are many in the Body of Christ that take great pride in what they think they can do for God, but they don’t truly understand that they are loved and that they are called to love others. This is the greatest hinderance to the ministry of Christ as well as every human being alive.Christ says, “As the Father has loved Me,” -- that is a a divine, everlasting, absolute, wonderful love --“I also loved you.” The very same love with which the Father had loved Him, He now gives to you. The will of Christ is that this everlasting, unconditional love should rest upon us. What an extraordinary blessing! Christ desires us to live in the power of the love of God that He also experienced.  Paul says “Love never fails.”This Love that the Son has for the Father and the Father for the Son, is not based on performance or conditions! This is a pure love. John wrote, “God is Love.” God does not have love, He is love. He is the “same yesterday, today and forever.” There is never a moment or a circumstance in which He is not Love. Armed with this reality we can have great faith in His commitment to Love us, in every situation of our lives.“In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” (1John 4:10). “We love Him because He first loved us.” (1John 4:19). To know that you are loved will empower you to love everyone else. It is that love that truly reveals the reality of Christ to the world around us.I am called to live in daily fellowship with the One who loves me and empowers me to love others. I continue to write in hopes that I can start a true movement of people who will focus on receiving and giving this love to others.His Beloved Child,Quintin