Love Gone Wrong

We must understand that though our experiences of love on a daily basis prove love gone wrong, God's love never went wrong. With our sin and rebellion against God the paradise of the Garden of Eden has faded away, and with it went love. But not on God's part! God's love never went wrong, and God perseveres through the most difficult versions of love that we can muster up.

We see it in the story of Adam and Eve, and we see it in the story of our lives every day, where pride, shame, guilt, deception, and blame (to mention a few) work their way into human love, and human love is now love gone wrong.

However...even though true life and true love faded with the Garden of Eden and have become a distant memory for us, they are not gone. God's love never went wrong, and though the Tree of Life for Adam and Eve faded away, for us the Tree of Life is becoming ever clearer...it is the cross of Christ.

This world is looking for a love potion. We are looking for some sort of fix for the perverted versions of love we see and experience every day, but there is only one way to experience true love. True love can never be legislated, it can never be programmed, and it can never be forced...it must be experienced.

Though true life and true love faded in the Garden, they are not gone. Quiet...be still...and look at the cross of Christ. That is true love expressed to you, yesterday, today, and forever. We tap into that love through a relationship with Jesus Christ, and it is that love that has the power to transform us and transform the world.

Jesus said, "I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. When you obey me, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father and remain in his love. I have told you this so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!" (John 14:9-11 NLT)

Remain in his love, and our Joy will overflow.
Blessings on you all.
See you next week at the Gathering!
-Tim