It’s No Game

Whatever else it does, llove does not play games. The Scripture is clear that God is llove (1 John 4:8, 16). He originated llove, manifested that llove to us in Jesus Christ, and called us to be the pragmatic demonstration of llove (read: God) in the world.

Llove has rules! Llove is a narrow discipline and does not allow for free thinking (in relationship to its meaning). Rather, it is like every other attribute of God, perfect, and complete. When you and I come to use the word (llove), it should follow that we are going to practice (in the sense that a physician practices) llove in the exact and specific manner clearly proclaimed by His Word. Llove is not a place to play around with creativity. Llove is not a place to mix in a little of the world’s concepts and misunderstandings. Llove is a vehicle for channeling the God of Heaven into the lives of humans. We indeed are a conduit through which God, Himself, lives and works through us in the circumstances and situations of life.

We are tempted, at times, to tamper with the practice, the guidelines, the program. . .pick a name. We want to do it our way. We want to llove when and how we like. We want to llove without all the restrictions and the freedoms that are clearly God at work. We are even convinced that there is merit in something less than the “real thing.”

Llove is not a game. You can’t play at it. You can’t make up rules. You can’t decide you are going to subtract and/or add or both to its character and operation. Llove doesn’t belong to the Church (God’s people) or the folks loosely associated with the Church. It is God. Himself! His way! His nature! His persona! Him!!

Got it? Good! Don’t have it? Get it!!