Devotion: Selfish Love

When was the last time you checked out your love life?  Is the kind of love that you have a self-centered, self-seeking, or self-interested kind of love?  Do you only love someone when there is something in it for you?  Is your love base on what you can get from someone?  Basically, do you have a selfish kind of love?

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away” (Timothy 3:1-5).

Scripture tells us that in the last days, people will be lovers of themselves and lovers of money.  They will be proud, boastful, arrogant, and blasphemous.  They will be disobedient to their parents as well as unappreciative.  They will be unforgiving and slanderers, who think nothing of immorality or betraying their friends.  They will be headstrong, hotheaded, rough, cruel, and constant liars.  They will be deprived of natural affections but will be opposed to goodness and will sneer at anyone who tries to do good.  They will be puffed up with pride and prefer good times to worshiping God.  They will be lovers of pleasure and not lovers of God.  Although they will go to church and keep up the appearance of having some form of godliness, they will not believe anything they hear and will live in defiance of its power.  Does any of these things sound familiar to you?  Is this the kind of “love life” that you have or the kind that you share with others?  This is not true love, but a “selfish kind of love” that is not the kind of love that God wants us to have.

“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another” (I John 4:7-11).

Scripture tells us to practice this kind of love; the kind of love where we truly have love for one another.  This kind of love comes directly from God.  Everyone who loves with this kind of love is born of God and truly knows God.  If a person does not have this kind of love does not know or lacks any knowledge of God, for God is love.  God showed his love toward us when he sent his only begotten son into the world so that through him we might eternal life.  It is from this simple act, God sending his son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins that we see what true love is, which is not our love for God, but God’s love for us.  If God showed this much love for us shouldn’t we learn to love each other equally.

“We love because he first loved us.  If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?  And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also” (I John 4:19-21).

Love comes from God because he loved us first.  If we say we love God, but hate our brother, then we are liars.  How can we say that we love God, whom we cannot see when we cannot even love the brother that we can see right in front of us?  God himself tells us that we must not only love him, but we must also love our brother as well.

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.  Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.  Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you” (John 15:13-15).

Jesus tells us how to measure this love that we are to have for one another.  He says, “Greater love has no man then this, when he lays down his life for his friends.”  This is the highest form of love, a valuable and precious kind of love that is in no way a “selfish love” but the God-kind of love that he wants us to have for one another.  So, how does your “love life” look now?

We forever pray that our inspirational message will abundantly bless you, greatly inform you, and that you will be the better for having read it.  If blessed by this message, please share so that others may be blessed as well.  Amen.

Enjoy your blessings - KW

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