Love, The Greatest Of All.

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I have been a Christian for sometime now, by that I mean I have tried to be a serious Christian for about nine years now although I was born in a Christian home. I also have found out that many of us have been brought up under "religion" instead of Christianity.  We have been so brainwashed to in the level of condemnation and works that we do not even know how to stop and experience the love of God. 
Even with the revelation of our righteousness being a gift of God in Christ Jesus, some Christians are still living in the realm of works and condemnation. Trying to be right, making extra effort to be a better person and by so doing we find ourselves standing in judgement against others because we believe they are not putting in enough effort to be better like us. I found out one important thing about being a Christian is "LOVE". 

Everything about us, our relationship with God and with one another should reflect love.  The Bible says that God is love. "He who does not love does not know God, for God is love." 1st John 4:8.  You see, it doesn't matter how many times we go to church (going to church is important), it doesn't matter that we are leaders in the church, pastors etc. If we have no love, we are wasting our time.  

Love attributes reflects the personality of God in us and 1st Corinthians chapter 13 explains the attributes of love better.  
In other to love people, we must first of all allow the love of God to flow through us, we must be exposed to the love of God, we must listen to messages that tell us how much God loves us. You cannot give what you don't have; when you allow the love of God to fill you up, it will pour out unto others.  Romans 5: 5 says,  ".... the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us."  This means that love is possible. If we open out hearts to God, we can receive His love and in turn share His love.  
Satan cannot stand love or an atmosphere of love, demons cannot operate in a love atmosphere because the glory of God is usually revealed in His love.   I think our pastors should preach more about the love of God so we can grow in this love.