What is the point in paying for this website if I don't ever use it?  Not that I don't ever use it.. I do.  But I want to use it more I guess.

Anyway….

I have been thinking a lot about love lately.  Actually I have been thinking a lot about a lot of things, as I feel like kinda a lot of things have been happening lately.  And to be honest, I haven't been doing too well with all of it.  Life lately has sure had it's ups and downs.  And the downs can seem so down and long.  Ugh.

But going back to love.  Love is it, isn't it?  Isn't what we live for to love?  I mean, we were created to be loved and to love.  Yes, we were created for relationships, but relationships happen because of love.  God created us, and He loves us.  And we need His love.  And He created us to love Him too.  And then He said to love each other.

I could whip out a ton of verses on love.  But I'm not going to.  I think that most people who are reading this have probably read and/or heard numerous times a lot of scripture that talks about love.

All I want to do here in this blog post I guess is remind myself, and remind others, that it's all about love.  Jesus said that the greatest commandment is to love God with our whole hearts, with all of who we are.  And the second greatest is to love others.  Everything wraps around that.  And then the Apostle Paul talks about how nothing is worth it unless it's done with love.  Otherwise, it's just a waste of time and useless.

I say I need to be reminded of this because I don't think I have been doing a good job at this lately.  I'm pretty selfish.

Actually, just yesterday and today mostly, I came to the realization that I really want power.  And comfort.  And a lot of what I do is actually to try and gain more power and be more comfortable.  It's not done out of love.  Or, maybe it is done out of love… love for myself above all other things, which is also wrong.

One scripture passage that I will whip out at you is Ephesians 3:14-19.  It reads, "14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."

That has been my prayer.  I want to to be strengthened in my inner being by the power of the Holy Spirit to comprehend more and more the breadth and length and height and depth of the love of Christ.  I want that so that I may also fall deeper in love with Jesus.  And I pray and hope that as I know that I am loved, and as I love, I will be filled with all the fullness of God.  Oh I so want this!  That's what life is about.

Anyone care to disagree?