Fireproof Your relationships with unconditional love Part 2

In the Part one I discussed what the definition of unconditional  love is a affection with no limits or conditions; complete love.
Why do you think God created mankind?  It wasn’t so they could worship Him and do everything He demanded them to do.  No, the angels were created to worship Him and to serve Him without any objection on their part.  God created mankind to love and so He could have a family. God desired a family so He could lavishly bestow upon them His unconditional love, wholehearted love, total love, complete love, unlimited love, and unqualified love.

In the Old Testament Bible scriptures, we see time and time again the unconditional love of God towards Israel and how time and time again they disobeyed him, went their own way and served other gods.  Yet time and again He delivered them from all of their captivity.

To have a real good look at the unconditional love of God, read the book of Hosea.  It reveals to us God’s covenant, unconditional love to Israel.

The Lord speaks to Israel through the domestic troubles of the prophet Hosea.  God told Hosea to take a wife of whoredoms to picture the condition of Israel when God called and married her, bringing her into covenant relationship as His people.  After a while Hosea’s wife, Gomer, left him to go after old lovers.  He was then commanded to buy her back as his wife again, and to make a contract that she would never again go after former lovers.  This was to teach Israel to return to God after forsaking his covenant and going after other gods; and God would marry Israel again and make an eternal covenant relationship with her.  God wanted Israel to be His eternal people.  They were to return to God by repentance, and God would redeem them eternally.

In this book, you can see God’s attitude toward each of us by expressing His love for us with everything that He does.  If you read this book, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal God’s unconditional love to you.

We see the unconditional love of God in the life, death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Unconditional love poured out of Him even at the cross as He said, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”

If you have seen “The Passion” movie, I am sure you would agree that it was Unconditional Love Himself, Who willing laid down His life for you and I.

We also will see the unconditional love of God in the life of the martyr, Stephen, in (Acts 7:59-60):  And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. 

What about us?  Can we love with unconditional love?   The Word of God says that we can.  When we were born again of the Spirit of God, we took on the very nature of God.  God’s unconditional love nature is ours now that you are born again.  God, the Holy Spirit, now lives in you, the Holy Spirit seals our spirit and our spirit is wall-to-wall Holy Ghost.  And the Bible scriptures reveal that because of the Holy Spirit living in our spirit; the love of God is shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Spirit. 

Galatians also speaks of the fruit of our spirit: which is  love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and self-control.  

In the following Bible scripture you will find unconditional love’s response to every day life experience:

 Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. 5 It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. 6 It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. 7 Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. 8 Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end.  ( 1 Corinthians 13:4-8)

We' have all heard songs about it, seen it in the movies, heard it talked about on talk shows by relationship experts, and read about it in thousands of self help books. But, what is unconditional love? We all want to feel loved. We think about it, hope for it, fantasize about it, go to great lengths to achieve it, and feel that our lives are incomplete without it. The lack of unconditional love is the cause of most of our anger and confusion. It is no exaggeration to say that our emotional need for unconditional love is just as great as our physical need for air and food.  

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  (John 3:16)

The greatest power known to man is that of unconditional love. Through the ages, mystics, sages, singers and poets have all expressed the ballad and call to love. As humans, we have searched endlessly for the experience of love through the outer senses. Great nations have come and gone under the guise of love for their people. Religions have flourished and perished while claiming to know the true unconditonal love of God. 

If we don’t have enough Real Love which is unconditional love, what you have is not real love  in our lives, the resulting emptiness is unbearable. We then compulsively try to fill our emptiness with whatever feels good in the moment—money, anger, sex, alcohol, drugs, violence, power, and the conditional approval of others. Anything we use as a substitute for unconditional love becomes a form of Imitation Love, and although Imitation Love feels good for a moment, it never lasts and never gives us the feeling of genuine happiness that  provides.
Most people spend their entire lives trying to fill their emptiness with Imitation Love, but all they achieve is an ever-deepening frustration, punctuated by brief moments of superficial satisfaction. All the unhappiness in our lives is due to that lack of unconditional love and to the frustration we experience as we desperately and hopelessly try to create happiness from a flawed foundation of Imitation Love. The beauty of unconditional love is that it ALWAYS will eliminate our anger, confusion, and pain. So how do we find this universal cure?   The revelation of  the Father s unconditional love for us will cause a desire in us to yield to unconditional love.  That is our very nature. You’re born of love and now you are a love machine, unconditional love machine.  The power of God’s unconditional love is what empowers us in the transition of our mind to the unconditional love.

When we allow ourselves to understand the impact our actions have not only on ourselves but others, how can we expect the world to know love, when we ourselves have no clue what unconditional love is. God has given us the example, so let each of us be that living example to our spouses, our families our friends and even those that might hate us.

God is the only example that we have of what unconditional love is, for we as imperfect being can not  learn it on our own. It is not a feeling, for feelings fail us daily, one moment our bodies tells us that it feels cold,  so you place on a sweater then your body says your too warm.