Its All About Love!

Ah...love...something that we all look for! But the question is...do we look for it in the right places? I saw a movie today where a girl was sexually abused by her step dad..and she looked for love in sex. She was so confused about what love really was and what the difference was between right and wrong. Sometimes things in our lives give us a warped view of what the truths are. Sometimes we think that love is found in sex, or in materialistic things, but in reality...thats not where it is found. Many people turn to drugs and alcohol because they cannot handle the things that are going on in their lives. They find "love" and support in these things and become addicted. But did you know that you can become addicted to Christ' love as well? And this is more in a postive way. A way that isn't harmful to your body. A way that wont give you a disease when you wake up the next morning. I know that I am going out on a limb in posting this, but I don't care. I know that there is someone out there that needs to hear this, and I promise that God's hand is in this and this person is going to be lead to reading this! I know that for me personally, sex was everything. I had such a confused view about it, that I didn't care. To me, that is where I found love. When I encountered Christ, I learned that this was not what love was. It wasn't even close. I'm not saying that all sex is bad, because in marriage (the way that God intended it to be) I have heard it isn't so bad! I came across a few verses a while back.

1 John 3:6
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
1 John 4:9-10
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:19
We love because He first loved us.

Hmm..didn't realize that there were three of them. Basically, all of them are saying the same thing. Christ showed love for us by dying on the cross for us. God loved us so much that He sent Jesus to die for our sins. We were meant to die for our sins, not Jesus. Now, you can't tell me that that is not true love! That is such amazing love! Not many would be willing to sacrifice their child for the whole world's sins! Where did our love come from? CHRIST! We love because He first loved us! Oh wow...so amazing! There is nothing more that we could ask for than having the love that Christ had when He sacrificed Himself for us!