BE LOVED

By Tammy Phillips
February 14, 2024

“He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will BE LOVED by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” (Jhn 14:21 NKJV)

“Looking for love in all the wrong places” is a well-known lyric from and old country song by Johnny Lee. Been there done that, how about you? Today, on what the world deems love day, I challenge you to be loved and find love in the only One who loves you completely, Jesus.

When my Nanny departed earth, I was sitting at work. The Lord allowed me an unforgettably, unique opportunity into her journey home. In my spirit I heard her say, “It is so love. It is so light. It is so love.” After a few moments, I gathered myself. I called my Mom to confirm and hear that Nanny’s spirit had passed on to eternal life and left her body on earth. I can just as loudly hear here words today, “It’s so love.” She was experiencing the presence of God. I want you to hear God singing over you today, words from His love letters to you…

For the LORD your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.

God is love.

God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love–not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. We love Him because He first loved us.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. By this we know love because He laid down His life for us. For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering, and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)

As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow–not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.*

I encourage you in the love of God. Knowing, I mean really, really, knowing how much God loved me and that nothing I had done, could do ,or would ever do would change His love for me, rocked my world. His love changed me. We all want to be loved deeply and unconditionally. This is the love God freely gives.*

This lead me to Pauls’ prayer over every one that reads this post… “that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what [is] the width and length and depth and height– to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Eph 3:17-19 NKJV) There is nothing like God’s love and being full of Him.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. (1Co 16:24 NKJV)

Live. Breathe. Be Loved!

* (Zep 3:17; 1 Jo4:8-10, 19; Jhn 15:13; Rom 5:8; 1Jo 3:16; John 3:16; Eph 5:2; Eph 2:4-5; John 15:9;Rom 8:35,37-38; . 1Co 13:4-7; 2Ti 1:7)