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Love is not a feeling but an attitude and an action. Many people say that they have fallen out of love with another person because they don’t understand the Source of love. They don’t understand that God is love, and that in order to keep on loving others, they need to keep on going to Him for a refilling, or a refueling, of that love. Most, it seems, look to find someone to love them instead of looking to the Lord to fill them and then to love others with the love that He provides. To understand what true love is, and what it is not, try studying 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. Its first characteristic is that of patience, or long suffering. Love is patient. Our patience will get tried by others. James tells us that it’s the trying of our faith that works patience in us. When we have let patience have its perfect work in us, we then become perfect and entire, in want of nothing. (See James 1:2-4.) Offenses and trials will come to each of us. What we do with them is what matters. God wants us to overcome unforgiveness, resentments, anger and hatred and to understand that the battle is not with flesh and blood. The warfare we experience is with the unseen realm and can only be won with spiritual weapons (Ephesians 6:10-17). People divorce their spouse thinking to find love in another, not understanding that true love is only found in God. If instead of looking to be loved, they instead choose to love others with God’s love, they would find that what they have sown, they will also reap (Galatians 6:7). Love will eventually return to them as long as they continue to love others. As we look to the Lord, and check ourselves to wee whether our attitudes and actions are those of love, and allow Him to help us to forgive those who have offended us so that we can properly love others, we are then obeying His New Testament commandment of love. (See Mark 12:30-31.) We no longer look to get love from others, but we look to Jesus to receive from Him so that we can have love to give to others.
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Ann Doupont is the author of 4 books and 6 booklets, including "God Can Heal Anything!" which shares her personal testimony of healing from Bipolar Disorder. More info can be found on her website at www.anndoupont.org.
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