AppNotes

March 24, 2021

Real love has requirements. There’s no such thing as “free” love. One requirement is that it must be an exchange—removing ME from my heart throne and putting the recipient of my love in that honored seat. Commitment to someone we love should visibly change our lives as their desires take precedence. We should ask, “How can I best serve the one I love?” Love requires and compels us to live for the other. Scripture says, “Christ’s love compels us” to demonstrate our love by no longer living for ourselves but for Him who died and was raised for us. His graceful love is the compelling element to obedience. So are you reallyinlove with Jesus or are you living for your selfish desires? Has “what Christ wants” become your #1 priority, or is your love just lip service? His grace should compel us to live His way.

Bible Reading

2 Corinthians 5:14-16 NIV
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.