We were made to Love Him

 We were made from “their” likeness. (mind body soul) WE WERE MADE TO LOVE GOD. This is where our ‘Epic’ becomes a love story. The greatest love story ever told. God creates us with “like” powers – the ability to reason, create, share intimacy; to know passion, laughter and pain. Through this “likeness”, we are able to experience wonder and imagination and most of all, we have the ability to dream.

 

Lastly, we have the ability to love. Love is the point. It is the reason for it all. Sadly, love has no boundary and must not be bound or controlled in any way. In short, love is an invisible power that we cannot see. It chooses you. You don’t choose it. you cannot control wo you love or force anyone to love you against their will. This is the problem of pain for God. Because we have free “will”.

 

(Now here, the verbiage is correct, not a misnomer, but the full sentence should be ‘because we have freedom to exercise our willpower’. In the truest sense of the word: we have the ability to control or restrain our impulses.)

 

Is willpower and self-control the same?

But self-control and willpower are different. Self-control refers to managing your behavior to achieve goals, improve positive outcomes, and avoid negative consequences. Whereas willpower is the ability to resist short-term temptations and desires to achieve long-term goals

https://www.forbes.com/sites/womensmedia/2022/04/22/heres-how-willpower-and-self-control-affect-your-ability-to-reach-your-goals/?sh=25a72b694f43

 

Our “willpower” comes from God. We are not able on our own.

 

The Holy Spirit living in the Christian is far stronger than any attack by the Devil. This encouragement should empower believers not to fear Satan, but rather trust the Lord and obey His commands. By doing so, we can overcome the powers of darkness and walk with boldness in this life.

https://www.bibleref.com/1-John/4/1-John-4-4.html#:~:text=The%20Holy%20Spirit%20living%20in,with%20boldness%20in%20this%20life.

 

(Okay, now that’s cleared up. Go on.)

 

God cannot force us to Love Him. God can only hope we ‘love’ in return. We know we are not what we were meant to be. We all fail on the most essential virtue of all. We fail when it comes to loving. We fail to love God. We fail to love ourselves.

 

Consider also, this. Every great story has a ‘rescue’. God has a rescue plan to save love and rescuing the human heart in the hardest mission in the world. Do we even want to be rescued? For those of us who do not, they will not be saved. Saved from whom? Themselves. God experiences sadness, pain and jealousy just like we do, however, it is magnified times the power of ten. God is a lover scorned; betrayed over and over again.

 

God’s love for us is greater than the pain and this is why God’s Plan is to ‘rescue’ us from captivity – the captivity of the heart.