Walking With Christ

1 John 4:7-8 (7)Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. (8)Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.(ESV)

I cannot give something that I do not have. If I have not been shown love then I cannot give love to others. If I have not found peace then I cannot give peace to others.

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.(ESV)

Every good gift. Love. Mercy. Grace. Joy. All of it and more comes from the one who gives freely, our God. I could not love until I truly knew what love was. I could mock and mimic the ‘love’ that I had been told was the real thing, but I was living in the lie of the enemy until I came to the Lord and truly knew what love meant.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (1)If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. (2)And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. (3)If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.(ESV)

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.(ESV)

Love was not mine to give until He gave it to me. Now, I love freely with no reservations, no limits, and no remorse. I’m still finding the peace again, but I know it’s there waiting on me.