THE LOVE NATURE

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” (1 John 4:7-8) ​ Love is one of the attributes of the new creation in Christ, the one who has the life and nature of God in his re-created human spirit (2 Corinthians 5:17). As a new creation, you don’t have to struggle to walk in love. You can live the love-life naturally, loving those around you with the same love that God has for the whole world (John 3:16). God knew that if the children of Israel would walk in love, they would obey all the commandments He gave them in the Law. However, they were unable to keep those commandments, because they didn’t have the love-nature in them. Their hearts were hardened towards God and towards each other. But then, Ezekiel, prophesying about the new creation (us), declared the mind of God: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26). So, in the New Testament, God has given every believer in Christ a new, fleshy heart that beats with His kind of love. This was God’s plan all along, to usher in a new class of people, born of Him, with His nature of love. When Jesus died and was raised back to life, the greatest miracle ever occurred. This new species of love-led, love-filled and love-dominated beings was born, and you’re one of them! That love-nature is what you got in exchange for the hardened, stony heart. Now you can freely express the God-kind of love to everyone around you. (Romans 13:10, 1 Timothy 1:9-10)