How to Find True Love
Colin Melbourne
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What you need most is unfailing love. The kind that never quits, never fails, and never ends.
That is how God loves you; and He always will.
God's love doesn't change like the weather, hot today, cold tomorrow. It is unlimited, unconditional, and undemanding.
He loves you the way you want to be loved; the way you were made to be loved.
You Were Made For Love
You don't have to pretend to be somebody you're not; He loves you just as you are, because you are you:- unique, hand-made by God, for His pleasure.
God is love: you were created by, and for love. You were made to love God; and to reflect his love to everyone.
When God created people, He made us like Himself; sinless, holy, and healthy. The Holy Bible says:
In the image of God he created... them. Ge. 1:27
God formed the earth, and gave the first couple the right to rule over it.
God wanted to enjoy a loving relationship with people, and to fill the earth with His love.
Love can never be compelled. He gave us a freewill so that we could choose to love and trust Him. The tragedy of the human race is that the first couple chose to sin.
Sin's Cause and Effect
They mistrusted what God said, and disobeyed His one and only rule. God had warned them not to eat from a certain tree, or they would surely die.
Satan encouraged them to eat the fruit, by lying to them that they would not die.
Adam and Eve broke trust with God, by eating the fruit, and sin entered their hearts.
God cannot fellowship (have friendship) with sinners, so they had to be driven from His Presence (spiritual death).
Instead of ruling the earth, they became subjects of Satan, whom they had trusted.
Your Lover's HandBook
He said, "If you love me, you will obey my commands... and if you obey my commands you will remain in my love. This is my command: Love each other."
How will you know His Word?
Their sinful nature led them to become ever more sinful. No longer loving like God, they lived in envy, hatred, bitterness and anger. The rot had set-in the human race.
Their first child Cain, grew up to become a murderer. Sickness and infirmities began to appear because of sin. Finally, they died, just as God had warned (physical death).
Every human being has inherited this sinful nature from the first couple. Born in sin, to live and die in sin; and be eternally separated from God.
God's Love Plan
But God did not leave the situation hopeless. He initiated a rescue mission. His plan was to completely destroy the power of sin.
God is perfectly just. He had said: The soul who sins shall die, and the wages of sin is death. Eze. 18:4b; Ro. 6:23a
He could not break His own word. So He had to find a way to punish people's sin, without them dying.
His idea was to find a substitute.
If someone who'd never sinned, was to die bearing the guilt and punishment of everybody else, God could legally acquit the sinners.
But the problem was, everyone had sinned.
The Bible says:
All have sinned and fall short of the glory (perfection) of God. Ro. 3:23
All had to die for their own sin.
That is why Jesus came. Almighty God in human form.
Love Makes The Way
The most famous verse in the Bible can now be understood:
For God so loved the world (You), that he gave his one and only Son (Jesus), that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. Jn. 3:16
God sent Jesus, His sinless Son, to earth. Born miraculously of a virgin, He lived the perfect life of love that we were intended to. Tempted, just like us, but never sinning once.
Then, as our substitute, He died on the Cross bearing all our sin, guilt, and sicknesses. He took the punishment we deserve, and went to Hell in our place.
After He had paid our sin debt in full, He rose from the dead.
Why?
To prove that He was sinless, He is the Son of God, all our sin is paid for, and that we can also be raised from spiritual death.
When you trust in Jesus, God will cancel your sin debt, declare you not guilty, come into your heart, and give you His life.
How can He do this?
Because Jesus paid what you owe.
When you believe in Him, His payment is accepted as yours. Your debt is gone, and you can go free.
That's Real Love
Wanna Know What Love Is?
The Bible says:
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us; While we were still sinners, Christ died for us... the righteous for the unrighteous to bring you to God. If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord (God)' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 1 Jn. 3:16; Ro. 5:8; 1Pe. 3:18; Ro. 10:9
Saved from a life separated from God and His love.
Saved from judgment of sin, saved from sickness and infirmity, saved from Hell, and all condemnation.
Sin has no power to condemn anyone who has trusted in Jesus Christ.
When you believe in your heart that Christ died for you personally; you can be united with God as though you had never sinned.
You will experience His wonderful love, and begin to live the real life that God plans for you. No more fear, no more loneliness, no more aimlessness, because the Love of God is with you always.
Trust in Jesus Today.
Ask Him to forgive all your sins, He will.
Ask Him to come into your heart, He will.
Ask Him to show you His unfailing love, HE WILL!
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