LOVE HURTS

We hear it all the time. The cheesy line about Love, and how it hurts. Movies portray it, people believe it and girls even believe they are in the right relationships because of it. Im here to say they are right when they say Love hurts. Im also ready to say weve misinterpreted who is supposed to be hurting and what Love is. 1 Corinthians 13 gives us a pretty clear understanding of Love and 1 John lets us know that God is love. John 15:13 says Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. God is love. Jesus was fully God fully man. Jesus died a painful brutal death that we might know him. Yes. Love HURT. Love hurt so that we might know love. We were created in the image of God(Imago Dei). We were created through and for God. We typically when saying love hurts have made ourself a god by putting our needs, desires and affections above anything else. Love is putting other needs desires and affections above anything else. Love was humiliated on a cross. To know love we must be humiliated on this earth. All of our comfort must go if we want to ever truly experience love. Love cannot commune with hate for they do not agree by nature. We must suffer by losing our agendas and self interest to ever know of love eternal. To ever know love we must know Pain. The Lord promises to cleanse us and sanctify us. This isnt and wasnt ever supposed to be easy. If it was all about ease why would Christ have had to suffer the ultimate disgrace? Couldnt the Lord have done it another way? Maybe, but the truth is through the pain comes the beauty, through the stripes came the ransom, and through suffering comes Love. Patient Kind trusting beautiful. the Kind that never fails...If you hurt today let it be that you might know him more tomorrow. If you lack worth today let it be that the Redeemer who paid your debt might show you his delight in you tomorrow. Let not the troubles of this world be in vein, but in preparation to become the righteousness of God! HE MADE HIM WHO KNEW NO SIN TO BE SIN THAT WE MIGHt BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD! 2 cor. 5:21...Oh what an inheritance...Trust and lean not on your own understanding. His ways are higher...