As one dives deeper into culture and as one dives deeper into God, quite peculiarly, you find that they have one thing in common. Love. This one thing is viewed completely different by each, but is where a lot of people find their meaning.
When you listen to the radio, or watch movies, or anything like that; how often do we seen love as a central theme. Everyone, guy or girl, enjoys a good love story. I would say close to, if not more than, half of all songs are written about love in some way. Whether it is about broken love, new found love, pure true love, or ungodly love; love surrounds us. And we love to love it. 
The same is with God, but in a much more real sense. When we dive into the person of God and see who Jesus really was, we see that He was a man who loved people. Plain and simple. He showed His love by eating with the sinners, healing many, and “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). And some of my single greatest “God-moments” come from when I am praying and understand, or get a revelation of, God’s unfathomable love.
What is different from the world’s love and God’s love, is that the world’s love is small, conditional and fickle, while God’s love is unconditional, faithful and “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:17-19).
I’m amazed to see these two forces fighting for my affections in my life. The world’s love looks so good at first, doesn’t it? It calls to us, inviting us into her house like the woman in Proverbs 7. It seems nice, but we know that following that ‘love’ is like putting our own neck in the noose or going to our own slaughter.
But God’s love, a love that is hard to grasp at times, is so big and amazing that sometimes it’s hard to fathom. It’s hard to know His love at first, but once we catch a glimpse of it, we truly are never the same (not just cuz Kim Walker says we are, we really are never the same). It is God’s love that sent His son to us to be a sacrifice for our many sins and it is God’s love that enables us to live lives worthy of Christ. God’s love is what makes all things new, and once we grasp this love we are able to pour that love back into others. And that is when we are truly able to impact people for the Kingdom of God.
So I pray that wherever we are, we are able to walk with God and walk in His love. We will never be the same.
Loved and Loving,
Morgan
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