Fall Into The Lord

 Fall Into The Lord

 

This morning, I heard a sister in the Lord use this term.  She used it in describing her morning time with the Lord. 

In this context the falling is not from an accident or by happenstance but by intent. Like when you are tired and you just fall into the bed.  You do it on purpose, by choice. 

Many times, people speak of the reason that they married someone was that they just fell in love and then the next thing you hear they get divorced because they just fell out of love.  Sadly, many people treat the Lord and a relationship with Him the same way.  Without intention and based solely upon their emotions. 

God’s love is one that is not based upon emotion.  It may, and often does, stir up our emotions and an emotional response but it is not an emotion.  It is a choice.  God made and continues to make the choice to love us.  The love spoke of in 1 Corinthians 13 is not speaking of a love that is natural to humans or that originates from humans.  It is from God and literally is God. (1 John 4:8b God is love.)

To really understand that God’s love is a choice have you ever stopped and really looked at what God hates? Proverbs 6:16-19 These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: 17 A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, 19 A false witness who speaks lies,
And one who sows discord among brethren.

Now how many of these things have been in your life and have you done?  I guarantee you that everyone of us have at least lied. That means that everyone of us have participated in what God hates AND YET God STILL LOVED AND LOVES US.  Why?  If His love was just an emotion, how could He love us when we are doing, and being, what He hates?  His love is greater than an emotion or a feeling. He chooses to love us.( Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.)

God didn’t start to love us once we stopped sinning, NO it was in the midst of our sinning, when we were at our worst, acting in the way that He most hated and when we offended His holiness the most that that He loved us and demonstrated His love for us. (1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.)

Take a look at 1 Corinthians 13 and read put in God everywhere it says love. 

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not God, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not God, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not God, it profits me nothing.4 God suffers long and is kind; God does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 God never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.13 And now abide faith, hope, God, these three; but the greatest of these is God.

 

1 Corinthians 13 is not about our love but it is about God and HIS love for us, how He wants to pour HIS love out on us, through us and out of us to others.  That is why we need to keep falling into God.  We need to fall in and stay there.  Be totally enveloped, saturated in the very love of God for us so that we can love Him, love ourselves and love others with the one and only true love that there is.