Intense Love Does Not Measure

April 28, 2012 flow, life, love No Comments

Love is doing someone good
at my expense
with affection
for God’s Glory

Love never fails.
~ 1 Corinthians 13:8



Morpheus: … What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?


Neo: The Matrix.


Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?


Neo: Yes.


Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work… when you go to church… when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. 


Neo:  What truth?


Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.


Morpheus:    What is the Matrix?    Control…..


Neo:   No,   I don’t believe it.    It’s not possible.


Morpheus:    I didn’t say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth.
~From the movie: “The Matrix” –  Warner Bros. 1999

Yeah, this movie is not everyone’s favorite drink, but its allegorical nature brings a lot of truth about life, belief, and spiritual reality to the screen.

Most of us go through our lives thinking that everything is as it seems.  We may even think that our lives are under control…  Never thinking that we might, in fact, be prisoners living within a world system that actually gets everything just plain backwards from the way God sees things and measures them (see Romans 1:21-25).

One of the vital things we get wrong is love.  However, the Bible is packed with how we should love.  One of the best synopses of Biblical love is this:  Love is doing someone good, at my expense, with affection, for God’s Glory.  Just plug in what Jesus did for us through the Cross, and the definition clearly works.

But we fall short.  Why?  Control.  We want to ‘love’ in ways that build control into our lives.  We give so that others will give back.  We show affection to get affection in return.  We do a “Return on Investment (ROI)” analysis to see if it is worth laying out love in a given situation.  Oh beloved, there is something wrong.  And we know it.

God’s love never fails (never gives up, never runs out, just goes on and on and on).  God tore open the veil between us and His Presence through Calvary – and started a torrent of His Love pouring into this world.  Oh, by the way.  The veil was never repaired.  His Love was poured out onto the early church and that overwhelming flood continues for every believer that yields to His Spirit in their life (Rev. 3:20).  G_d simply did not put an off-valve into the conduit of His great Love.

The only thing that can mess with the flow?  Us.  When we:
deny His Love
block His Love
hoard His Love
measure what’s in His Love for us
meagerly dole out His Love to others
or try to get our love from a different source altogether

Beloved.  G_d loves us without measure. 
His Love is an overwhelming – beyond infinite Love.  

And we dribble out love for others.  What?  Like we’re gonna run out?  Are you kidding me?  Reader, there are literally thousands of millions of hurting people who CAN BE REACHED if we but start allowing our lives to flow with the power of G_d’s Love.

Love is doing someone good
at my expense
with affection
for God’s Glory

Let’s take the valves off the ends of our “love pipes,” and let Him just pour through us.  We’ll never need to close them anyway!

1 Corinthians 13

The Greatest Gift

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And 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. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.  4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.  11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.  13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.


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Makala Doulos

Mak is just a guy who is in Love with Jesus and his wife and kids. He writes about the amazing things that G_d is doing in our lives. May you be blessed and encouraged.