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Love Love Love

Many people periodically say “love is the most important thing“. Yet that can mean different things to different people. For some people it means to just be super friendly and do what you think they should want.

But here is my two cents on this topic:

To Love God is our first priority:

Loving God often means to do and say exactly what HE wants …even if it gets us into trouble. Even if it embarrasses or causes us loss. Even if it causes people to accuse us of being insane and unstable.

Jesus Christ is the embodiment of God, we know God by Jesus Christ only. So to love God first our#1 is to absolutely be focused and centered on Jesus Christ, not on people. Not on evangelism, not on exposing Satan’s schemes, not on “making the world a better place“. We will get to all that in time, that all happens naturally within Jesus.

Jesus Christ is love and he is taking over, so we are to look to him with every part of our lives.

The kingship and glory Jesus Christ is God’s top priority, not people. The salvation of people is an aspect of Jesus Christ. Our salvation is one (wonderful) subset of him.

To love people:

  • Be patient with everyone.
  • Be kind to everyone.
  • Forgive and overlook offenses.
  • Be happy when people get blessed and you do not.
  • Give as much as possible to the poor, (even if you become poor.)
  • Give to those who steal from you.
  • Submit to people (even those who don’t deserve submission), out of a motive of brotherly kindness.

What does love mean to you?

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The Two Types of Loyalty

Worldly vs. Godly Loyalty

-a strong feeling of support or allegiance.
Loyalty is allegiance or support to another person or institution. But I think there are two types of loyalties in life based on differing motivations.

Worldly loyalty is toward colleagues and friends and is based on desire to gain something in return, this allegiance is cheap and humanistic. This feeling of support is linked closely to hierarchy and is valuable within institutions and in most functioning societies (governments, companies and religious institutions.) If you want to get ahead then be loyal and learn how to display it often.

Any leader or institution that requires and thrives on this first type of loyalty must become divisive. I say that because he must exalt those who are loyal and oppress (or at least disregard) those who are disloyal (to one degree or another) in order to keep things orderly and under themselves.

There is also a Godly loyalty between people based upon love. This love binds the kingdom of God together. It makes healthy society work. It is misunderstood by most and is sometimes seen as weak and small. Loyalty based on love makes groups of people function effortlessly. Real love comes from another realm altogether and is a key feature of the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Ask yourself a few questions:

  1. Are you loyal to people?
  2. Why are you loyal to the institutions or people that you are loyal to?
  3. Take away whatever benefit you are receiving (or hope to receive from it) and will it go away?

When all those benefits are stripped away all that will be left is loyalty based on love. Jesus Christ is the only source of love.

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