If you love someone you accept them as they are. Right? That’s the explanation we hear from churches
and denominations that embrace the LBGTQ+ lifestyle. After all, they say, God is love. 1 John 4:8 does
say emphatically that God is love. However, those who use that line of reasoning have it backwards.
They define love with human, carnal understanding. They then use that faulty understanding to define
God. In essence, they are making “love” their god. That’s not how it works.
If we want to know what true love is and how it manifests in our lives and thinking, we need to learn
God’s character…and this is important…as revealed in the Bible. How does God relate to the sinner?
How does he exhibit what real love is as He relates to humankind? Does He tell us that if it feels good, if
it brings us some sense of joy, if we feel happy doing something…do it? Absolutely not.
What our creator does, is tell us what brings true joy and happiness and commands us to live that way.
Why? Because He loves us. He does like to see us happy and smiling, enjoying life. Just not at a risk to
ourselves and to our relationship to Him. If He tells us something is wrong, it is because that
“something” is wrong and, in the long run, will rob us of true joy and happiness. And yes, He may well
discipline us for wrong behavior.
So, no, we don’t get to define love and how then determine how love should be demonstrated. We look
to the Bible, see what God says, see how He acts (especially in the work of Christ), and understand that
is what love is. Then live accordingly. Then we can look sinners in the eye and tell them that we love
them, and that God loves them, but what they are doing is wrong and God wants them to live in a
manner that pleases Him…and is best for them. That’s what love would do.
Say good things about your Savior and about His church on the bluff.
and denominations that embrace the LBGTQ+ lifestyle. After all, they say, God is love. 1 John 4:8 does
say emphatically that God is love. However, those who use that line of reasoning have it backwards.
They define love with human, carnal understanding. They then use that faulty understanding to define
God. In essence, they are making “love” their god. That’s not how it works.
If we want to know what true love is and how it manifests in our lives and thinking, we need to learn
God’s character…and this is important…as revealed in the Bible. How does God relate to the sinner?
How does he exhibit what real love is as He relates to humankind? Does He tell us that if it feels good, if
it brings us some sense of joy, if we feel happy doing something…do it? Absolutely not.
What our creator does, is tell us what brings true joy and happiness and commands us to live that way.
Why? Because He loves us. He does like to see us happy and smiling, enjoying life. Just not at a risk to
ourselves and to our relationship to Him. If He tells us something is wrong, it is because that
“something” is wrong and, in the long run, will rob us of true joy and happiness. And yes, He may well
discipline us for wrong behavior.
So, no, we don’t get to define love and how then determine how love should be demonstrated. We look
to the Bible, see what God says, see how He acts (especially in the work of Christ), and understand that
is what love is. Then live accordingly. Then we can look sinners in the eye and tell them that we love
them, and that God loves them, but what they are doing is wrong and God wants them to live in a
manner that pleases Him…and is best for them. That’s what love would do.
Say good things about your Savior and about His church on the bluff.