Setting Ourselves to Love

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There's a lot I'd like to share..
But time is quite limited nowadays, so I'll just write something I received just now haha.

Romans 8:29 says "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 bethren (amplified version).

What hit me was that Jesus was the first among men to carry and express the likeness of God on the inside. From His time on, there would be men who could actually be like God, who could actually follow an example of real love and the beauty of God inside weak frames. Jesus set the example and displayed the never-before-seen behavior of God. He was the first of His kind. And now men who have the Spirit living inside them have the same ability to go against the grain of normal, graceless manner. We are able to love creatively as the Spirit gives us ideas, and we are able to flow in peculiar acts and speech that astound men with their simple power, as with Stephen's speech of which people couldn't deny the power. The same innovation to love and to live purposely is accessible to us through the Spirit. This is why men who know the Spirit are Spirit-seekers. Because honestly, we're not that creative nor loving by ourselves. We need His help.

On a personal level, I'm realizing just how incapable I am of truly loving. Some days I wouldn't even call myself a Christian. I don't do anything that really shouts, or even whispers "love." It's hard to really live everyday for God when you get busy. It's cliche but I'm realizing it is very important to treasure every day. We get a lot of days, a lot of time that can so very easily be spent away, but I guess..every opportunity to love can build up into "a life lived for God," and that's all we're really here for.

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