Love Is Not Selfish

 

Love Is Not  Selfish 

 " Love does not insist on its own way " 

 1 Corinthians 13 : 5

People in love usually are are very selfless in their love relationship. A person who is in love is just a selfless person who do not live for himself or herself, but lives and does things for the sake of love and because of their loved ones. 

So one of the characteristics of love is that it is not selfish in decision making and even in making choices. This means love does not insist on his own, but rather accept a corporate decision from their loved ones. 

God also have the same altitude of love towards his children. God took part of our humanity, because of love, that is why God was  made flesh and dwelt with us .

 " And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness, God was made manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit ,seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. " 1 Timothy 3:16 God was still demonstrating love when he left his natural habitation in the Spirit and took over natural habitation in the flesh. 

God's love considers our ways  and God also flows with us in our ways ." For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities,but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin ." Hebrews 4:165 

It is the love of God for humanity that made Jesus to share in  our humanity  .Love is totally living to please the person you love and not yourself, it is living to honour the person you love and not yourself. That is why if we love God, we must live to honour God with our lifestyle all the time. 

Our love for God must be seen in the things we do for God in a selfless manner. This means we are practically living to please God by doing things not in our own way, but in God's way, according to the will of God for our live. " Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. " 1 John 3 : 16 God wants us to demonstrate the same kind of love he demonstrated for us by dieing for us in the cross of Calvary to others in  a selfish way. 

PRAYER TOPIC 

1. Lord help me to love selflessly, 

2. Lord help me to love my neighbour selflessly in Jesus name.  

AMEN