September 16, 2009

• God’s Different Loves

  God’s been revealing His love to me more lately.  God has taught me how to give and receive love as a brother to a sister (having two sisters), as a son, as a friend, as a servant, and even a bit as a father with the children at my home.  I’ve grown some in loving as a brother to a brother.  I’ve yet to experience the love a groom has for his bride.  Each love is different.  There are different emotions stirred from different people depending on the relationship.  Receiving approval/affirmation as a young son from a father is so powerful.  Receiving approval as a father from a young son is not as critical, rather it is the son receiving the affirmation and shining from it that moves the father.  I’m not saying that these different relationships have completely different types of love, it just seems each has certain different parts of love that are stronger than others… and for some it’s a part of love that can’t be found in other relationships (like the love of a bride and a groom).  

  I have a lot of love for all my friends.  But I have to admit, there are certain people that I feel a stronger love for.  Its stronger than a love as a friend, but its not a love as a lover.  There is a stronger love to shelter, to approve, and to bless for these certain people.  What I feel is that the love for the person is not just a love as a friend, but it incorporates the other loves as well… and for me often it’s a fatherly love that is stirring in me.  It brings a stronger love.  Its incorporating different parts of love from two different types of relationships.  As I experience this, it humbles me in thinking of just how powerful God’s love is for us because the love I feel at times for some people is so strong.  And again, its not the love a groom has towards his bride… I can only imagine how much stronger that love is.  And imagining all these loves being put together is so powerful.  That God calls us His bride, His son, and His friend… this love is too great to comprehend.  Even the love a good general has for his soldiers is powerful.  And the love of a good shepherd.  And the love of a thoughtful creator.  Different emotions are stirred in each relationship.  God’s love for each of us cannot fully be grasped… its too great and its too wonderful!

  This is something I’ll likely write more about in the near future, particularly God’s love for us as a father.  May you receive more and more revelation of each of God’s love for you.  God bless!

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