Life can slip from right under you by accident, from within you by disease, or from simple old age. The brevity of time that we each have is apparent and the older I get the more I see how time is a created thing meant to also glorify God. Day and Night. We begin to get a glimpse of heaven from the time we spend in glorifying God.
Love.
The more we love, in line with what God tells us love is, (because it's possible to say you love yet not know or follow the actual meaning of it) the more we see how time glorifies God. Our time, the minutes, hours, and days become full of His glory and so much meaning.
Love.
Time in love is time with love. Time loving others is time full of love.
What is your time full of?
What's taking up all your time?
Is it love?
Or is it worrying? Video games? Shopping? Boredom? Busyness? Tiredness? Stress? ...
We all know life will eventually come to an end on this earth--meaning time will eventually reach max capacity. Whatever is filling up your time right now is taking up your time. The more time that's taken up the less we have of it. Follow the logic here and understand that time is actually under our free will too! Just not the amount we have of it. God made time in order that we dwell on earth in love with Him, but along came sin and split us up. When we believe in Jesus and how His death took that very sin away in order to reunite us to the love of the Father ...we get to fill our time back in love.
Fight for love in your use of time.
You will soon find that it won't be a matter of you searching for ways to love, because the need for love is stronger than your grasp of it. The more you begin to understand and give real love to others the more you will see how it fills up more and more time. It's so needed by everyone, that's how everywhere it is.
We need to love one another because time belongs to God. There will be those that steal His created time for uses of their own, but let's fill up time with more love to combat them.
Love from God never runs out. Love never ends. We love others from the forever springs of being loved by Love Himself.
People need love because people need God. Everyone needs love because everyone needs God every day.
I think loving others in some way should be our goal everyday, it doesn't have to be a certain way, but in some way.
Because time is being filled up with something everyday, we are filling our time with something! Let's fill it with love, because love is the best, the superior way.
Christ is seen from love-layered lenses, Christ is heard from love that's loud,
And Christ is known from love-leading minds.
Love one another.
Love one another.
Time is too short to not spend it full of love. Fight for love in your time.
"I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love,
so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery — Christ. (Colossians 2:2 HCSB)
Come to think of it, the only reason I can love others is because I love God. I bring all myself to Him and receive His love, and when I love others it sometimes is wronged, and it still hurts when people don't love in return. But I forget what love is in those brief moments of painful feelings. Love is higher than that.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 Corinthians 13:7 HCSB) All things? Even painful things? Yes. Even painful things. Love is more than a moment of feeling, it is God Himself in us...teaching us to live life in fullness of love. Because life in eternity will be just that. We will behold Jesus fully, in whom dwells God's fullness. I think about it now and it makes more sense that I love being loved by God and that is precisely why I see love outpouring from my life onto others. Love comes from God. It overflows.
We fight to let ourselves be loved by Him.
Jmegrey
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