07/28/2026
What we do and then call Love does not qualify to be referred to as Love. To cheapen the whole personhood of Love by calling what our self-centered approach is, what is known as “human love,” a functioning within lies and deceptions of what the enemy has used this world system to produce within us. Crying out from within is not capable of being satisfied by our watered-down, distorted/perverted understanding of love. We desperately need the REALITY of Love to supply and quench the desperate thirst within us.
1 Timothy 1:5 (ampc)
Whereas the object and purpose of our instruction and charge is love, which springs from a pure heart and a good (clear) conscience and sincere (unfeigned) faith.
The goal of our instruction is Love. If God made man for His image and the image of God is Love, then we were all made to love – not need it, be it. We need as a fallen people because when Adam sinned, it cut mankind off from having access to Love. If we have been “cut off” from Love, then anything we do, understand, and attempt to produce is at best a distortion of the reality of what Love is. Our only hope of experiencing the reality of Love is to be restored into relationship with Love through a saving faith in Christ (who is the ONLY avenue to the Father [to Love]). Our only hope of achieving Love operating purely in our lives is through Restoration and Sanctification to the point of complete Revelation – we become, like Christ, “Living Word”. We are called to “Follow Him”, to be as He is.
1 John 4:17 (ampc)
In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world.
He, Jesus/Christ, has made us in His image, and He is the “First Born”.
Romans 8:29 (ampc)
For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.
Romans 8:28-30 (tpt)
28 So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together for good, for we are His lovers who have been called to fulfill His designed purpose.
29 For He knew all about us before we were born and he destined us from the beginning to share the likeness of His Son. This means the Son is the oldest among a vast family of brothers and sisters who will become just like Him.
30 Having determined our destiny ahead of time, He called us to Himself and transferred His perfect righteousness to everyone He called. And those who possess His perfect righteousness He co-glorified with His Son!
As we entered this world, born into Adam, we were separated from knowing who we are. In that deficit and lack of access to the One who knows us because He is the One who created us, we were cut off from the Source of Life and Truth. We began to look to our environment to understand who we are. But the mistake was that our environment, those who interacted with us from within it, could only reveal who they were within “their understanding” that had developed over time as they interacted with their environment. So, in our state of “self-centeredness/sin”, we gained an understanding of self that was actually a revelation of who those around us understood themselves to be. The result was our development of a FALSE IDENTITY that was a manifestation of the lies of the enemy rather than that of a Loving Father who created us before time began in His heart of Love. And, from our position of ignorance and delusion, we dare to stand and shake a fist toward God and say we have no need of Him or that He doesn’t even exist.
2 Corinthians 10:12 (tpt)
Of course, we wouldn’t dare to put ourselves in the same class or compare ourselves with those who rate themselves so highly. They compare themselves to one another and make up their own standards to measure themselves by, and then they judge themselves by their own standards. What self-delusion!
