1.5.26 ~ The greatest is love

If man/adam, formed from the dust of the earth/adamah, is made in the image/tzelem and likeness/dumut of God...and God sees our affliction and hears our cries (Ex. 3:7) because He is love (1 Jn. 4:8) and a consuming fire (Deut. 4:24) that eradicates anything not good and purifies that which is good... shouldn't we be imitators of Him (Eph. 5:1,2)?


Of Yeshua, The One Who is God and with God (Jn. 1:1; Gen. 1:1 [in Hebrew]) the Word made flesh (Jn. 1:14), it is said of those who follow Him that they will be known by their love (Jn. 13:35), by abiding in the Word (Jn. 8:31) and by bearing fruit (Jn. 15:8). 


As we head into 2026 I want to shed a little of God's loving image into your life by reintroducing you to the concept of the earthly-heavenly love connection.  Are you ready to fill your love tank? 


We love God because He first loved us (1 Jn. 4:10). The question that I ask myself this morning is how do we fall in love (with God and our honey bunny)? And, how and why does that fiery love fizzle over time? 


Contrary to my emotional state of understanding, we don't really fall in love with the person. We fall in love with the version of ourselves that comes alive in their presence; that version of us that feels more free, more radiant, more whole and through that special one we catch a glimpse of the beautiful depth of possibility that already lives inside of us; that divine spark that is in every man (Jn. 1:9). 


Love, too often becomes something that we see as existing over there in that special person and when they are not present, it feels as if they’ve taken the love with them...resulting in the empty feeling many of us know too well! 


But no-no-no, on the contraire mon frere, that love you're feeling doesn’t belong to them. They were the catalyst, not the container. They ignited a spark for something that was already flickering inside you. Love, according to the image and likeness that you were created in, is your very nature by God's design; love is who you are. You are the container!


The real question to remember when they feel far away is remembering who you were when you were with them. Remembering how you felt. Remembering the feeling of freedom, the possibility, the lightness you generated. Remembering It wasn't imported, it wasn't borrowed, it was you! even if you didn’t realize it. 



The great lie we've believed is that the absence of that special one means you’ve lost something essential. The great truth is that the essence of love, the depth, the beauty, the expansiveness is something that’s within you all the time. It's portable. It’s infinite and it’s not dependent on one person to activate it. 



You’re capable of feeling that depth of love again and not because someone else brings it to you but because it’s who you are; made in the image of God. The right person might help you remember it; they might draw it out of dormant hiding, but make no mistake that love is yours. It's you. This is why love isn’t scary. It isn't fragile, it isn't something that disappears when someone walks away. It's you. Hence, that's why you can love your neighbor as yourself. That's why you can say, "you, I love." Then you can focus on their beautiful qualities when you say, "I love you." And because you love them for who they are and who they are becoming (Rom. 8;29), you can say, "I'm in love with you". 


Love is the divine essence that God made you. It's that force that moves you through life when you allow it. It's the pulse of your own aliveness ready to meet the world with your eyes, your touch, your presence. So yes, for those who've had someone who fanned that flame inside you and they are gone, grieve the loss of the one that is not with you. Honor the space they held in your life, but never ever grieve the loss of love itself; because love isn’t gone. Love is here! Love is you! The more you realize this divine presence in yourself the more resilient you will be in handling life's challenges.


You I love.


Shalom!

Alan

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