God Made You for Love

 You are made for love. How can we say this when we see so much hatred and cruelty around us?

Where does the love between mother and child come from? Why do we long for love when we don't know how to find it?

Our human tendency to love is often corrupted and twisted, but not destroyed.

Who is the source of true love? Only God, who invented motherly love.

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.”
“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! Is 49:14–15 NIV

Jesus often spoke about love.

He spoke of the limited love of natural, flawed human beings and the unlimited love of God.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. Mt 5:43–45 NIV

Love is generous.

“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! Mt 7:9–11 NIV

True love is always practical. He who does not want to give does not really love.

God is love. God's heart is open to you. He wants to help you and bless you with many good gifts.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. Jas 1:17 NIV

Do you not know God's personal love? You can come to know God today.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Jn 3:16 NIV