The power of God (which is the love of God) is a creative force that will change your life when we understand it. The Word declares in 1 John 4:8 (Amplified) that God is love. And, it was love that created everything that we see and everything that we don't see.
If God is love, then it wouldn't be any stretch of the Word to declare in Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning love created the heavens and the earth." This creative power worked in the life of Jesus on a regular basis. It multiplied the loaves and the fishes, took money from a fish's mouth,created sight to a blind man, and many other such things as these with it's creative powers.
In many foreign lands that serve other gods, we see no creative things in their lives. No industry, no prosperity and very little in the field of medicine and other things. Most of all, the industry they have was a direct result of Christian people bringing it in to them. They live in darkness and death. Riots, revolts and many other things indicate the absence of love (God's love). It's not that God doesn't love them, but they have never reached out to that love and so the creative ability isn't at work there.
This love which is God gave the best of Himself when He sent Jesus. This creative love was the very thing that brought forth a new creature unto all who would receive it.
When love created the heavens and the earth, it was the nursery formed to receive God's family. Just as you would do if you were expecting a new baby. You would set up a nursery with all the things that would delight your new child like painting the room and putting up bright curtains. You might bring in some stuffed animals, a mobile and a little music box along with anything you might think would delight the little one. That's exactly what our Father did when He created this earth for us to inhabit.
All of the bright colored birds we see, all of the beautiful flowers that grow are for us. Flowers have no purpose at all as far as man is concerned. You don't eat them nor can you build houses from them. They only serve to bless you with all the beauty that love could bring. God, Love was building a nursery. So many different trees along with so many kinds of terrain. God put the domestic animals, dogs, cats, and all the animals on earth just to delight His children.
He could have made all things the same, but He didn't because He realized we would need a variety of things to please all the different delights of His children. Some would like different climates and some would like different terrains and the things that grow in different places. He made so many different kinds of fruit trees to insure that no one was left out. Love created so many different kinds of fish with bright colors to amaze His children and bring forth the laughter of His family.
This love, this God is now a Father; a proud Father. Even sin in the Garden couldn't stop this love from having a family to inhabit this nursery of His love. This creative power of His love wouldn't be stopped by the lies of an enemy. Just as no loving father would believe the worst about his children, so too this loving Father would go all out to bring His children home.
Love found a way when there was no way by laying down His own life in the body of His Son. He made and became the door back to His place of joy. When Love set out to have a family, nothing could stop it from becoming Love's own creation.
This same creative power has now become our own spirit. We were made in His Image and Likeness. Now by this love miracle of the new birth, He has now become one with us in truth by His Spirit. Now, with this Holy Spirit of God Himself, He has so perfectly cleansed us of our old sin nature by love. So clean are you now, that God Himself (by and through the Holy Spirit), can now actually come an abide in us. Love's dream is coming home.
Just like any loving parent plans for his children, this loving Father has set before us all things to enjoy. Now, love has a face, the face of Jesus. Now, love has a name. Now, we can actually watch this creative power of love as He in human form walks the streets of Jerusalem. Now, we can hear love speak as He sets the captives free. Now we can see the gentle hands of the one who created this nursery called earth lay hands on a pitiful leper and new flesh is created by this love.
This love that is now in us and a part of us, has a mission and a calling. We were to take His name, His Spirit, His Word, and most of all, His love and created the miracle of love for the captives. It's no wonder that love never fails. God is love.
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