Love Gives Cheerfully!
Love is the most joyful character any human being can have. It is who God is. It completes the human being. It is the only connection man has to God and makes them one. Love is the reason for our being, for our redemption, and eternal life. Love is the greatest commandment. God commands all human beings to have this character, so much so that love becomes who they are, not just what they occasionally do. Are you love?
Love is tightly connected to the act of giving cheerfully. A cheerful giver is one who gets a high from giving, they experience excitement at the thought of it. Their giving costs them everything they have in their capacity to give, withholding nothing. This is a sign of true LOVE. They give to those in need, strangers, poor, widows, orphans, those who have no capacity to give them back, and to others who have capacity to give, but they do so without expecting anything in return.
Remember, not all giving is done out of love. One can give out of obligation, another as a showoff, some as a transaction, and still others as manipulation, but this is not love. Only God knows those who are truly giving out of love. 1 Corinthians 13 speaks of this love. Vs. 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”
Love Gives:
“For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (AMP)
Love Gives Cheerfully:
“Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise (crush) Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.” Isaiah 53:10 NKJV
The love of God is too powerful and precious, that He gave humanity all He had, His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Not only did He give His Son to us as a ransom, but He did it CHEERFULLY. It PLEASED Him to crush His only begotten son for you and me. Wow! What a blessing. This is LOVE Himself. Does it please you to give all in your capacity to give? Do you look for opportunities to love and give?
Since I made the prayer asking God to give me love like His and nothing less, I cannot live my life any other way. I am always on the lookout for opportunities to love and people needing the love. God leads me to them, and I love them with all the love of the Father in me. Many people can misinterpret this love because what they have is not love. Scripture says that the love of many will grow cold. Therefore, do not fear or worry about being misunderstood or misjudged. Christ went through it as well, but He never compromised His love. Even when many thought He was suffering because of His sin, He let them think that, but He went on with the act of love.
Isaiah 53:4 NLT “Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.”
If someone rejects your love, LET THEM. keep moving on to the next person and love fiercely because love never ends. There is so much love to go around. I must keep loving and giving otherwise I have no purpose on earth. Do you love? Do you give cheerfully?
“Now [remember] this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to others] will also reap generously [and be blessed]. Let each one give [thoughtfully and with purpose] just as he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver [and delights in the one whose heart is in his gift].” 2 Corinthians 9:6-7 AMP
In Christ’s Love, GZ❤
Gift Zawadi Love
Holy Ghost Impartation Ministries.