9 Reasons To Fall In Love
1. Love Is A Sweetener. Love is the flavour that makes life sweet. Without love life is bitter. Little things like ‘thank you’, ‘please’,’ sorry’, ‘welcome’, ‘I love you’, ‘I miss you’, ‘I want to be with you’, etc are the seasonings that make life taste good. People who complain about everything and everyone make life taste sour and bitter; not only for themselves but for people around them. On the other hand, people who show love, give complements and make effort to create harmony around them are the ones that make life taste good like honey. Fall in love and stay in love; then you will find that life is sweet!
2. Love Is Key To Good Health A person who loves enjoys good health but a person living with bitterness often fall sick. There is nothing as emotionally draining as bitterness and resentment. If you really hate another person to the point where you wish them dead the next minute, you might be putting yourself in the danger of dying before they do. Carrying bitterness in ones heart to the point where you cannot sleep without having your offender lying side by side in bed with you each night puts you in a state of mental and emotion breakdown. I believe one of the reasons our hospitals are full of sick people is because we have too many people full of bitterness. There are probably people on their death bed who are cursing and wishing evil on others right now. No wonder some people do not respond well to treatment. Resolve never to go to bed angry, it will do your health some good
3. Love Is Key To Financial Freedom. There is a link between love and financial freedom and between bitterness and poverty. If you love you will give and if you give you will receive. The reverse is also true. If you don’t love you won’t give and if you don’t give you won’t get. It’s that simple. Givers never lack and haters are never free from lack. Did you know that many of the world's richest people are the ones solving problems for people? It is hard to be a successful business person without a true desire to solve problems for people with genuine love. That is why when I see a person who does not care to solve problems for people I know I'm looking at a person who is going to be poor and broke sooner or later. Love leads to financial freedom. Bitterness leads to financial hardship.
It is not only giving that opens financial doors, forgiving also does. Did u know that many people will be rich if they did not owe anyone? If you are bitter and unforgiving, you may never get out of debt. Jesus taught this powerful lesson with the story of a guy who owed a large sum of money that he was unable to pay. Moved with compassion, his creditor forgave him and wrote off the debt. As soon as he left his Creditor, he met another guy who owed him a lesser amount of money and he refused to forgive. His former creditor heard what he had done, called him back and demanded that he paid up every cent he owed or spend the rest of his life in jail. Could it be that many of us are unable to get out of debt because we have refused to forgive people who owe us? Remember- it is God who gives power to get wealth and he gives it only to people who obey the commandment to love and forgive one another.
4. Love Sets Free. Loving people sets people free. Haters live in self-made prisons. For example, if you are bitter against someone, you want to do everything to avoid that person and avoiding people is hard work. If they are coming in one way, you want to take another way whether you like it or not. Does that sound like self-made prison? Yes, it does. Keeping a grudge keeps the grudge custodian in self-made prison. By prison, I mean any condition that restricts our freedom and makes life more difficult for us. Many people are in emotional prisons today because they choose to live with bitterness. No matter our justification for that bitterness or resentment, it still hurts the person carrying it. If you want to enjoy true freedom, learn to love people. Loving people set people free.
5. Love Attracts Love Gifts Every true gift is motivated by love. “For God so loved the world that he gave His Son…” Imagine a world without Jesus Christ. Many of the wonderful things that make life beautiful come as free gifts inspired by love; especially gifts that money cannot buy. Who can afford to buy oxygen and the lungs to suck it up? Who can buy happiness and acceptance? Who can buy genuine friendship and all the blessings that come with it? Without love there is no true gift and without gifts life becomes empty. Love is the inspiration behind giving and receiving. If you want to enjoy plenty, learn to love. You will not only give more but you will also receive more and your life will be full of love gifts.
6. Love Yields Good Returns On Investment Did you know that many of the love gestures and favours you and I enjoy today may quite be returns on the investment of love and kindness we or our parents showed to other people in the past? That is why we must not look away if we can help someone in need. There will be a time when you or your loved one will be in need; if you have not made any love investment you may not enjoy as much returns. “He who gives to the poor lends to the Lord and the Lord does repay “ Imagine God giving you returns on your love investment - huge dividends it will be. A person who loves secures God's favour. Believe that!
7. Love Is The Power Behind Faith. No one can accomplish much without faith but faith works only by love. The great Theologian Paul of Tarsus wanted to emphasize the superiority of love and he said “if I have faith to move mountains but have no love, it means nothing (1Cor13:8). Bible says let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works (Mat 5:14). Faith without work is dead and the works of faith are the good works motivated by love.
8. Love Makes You A Friend of God. I heard of a man who killed his wife and daughters because he felt they were dishonouring God. Do you mean to tell me that God kills everyone who dishonours him and the world's population still stands at over 7 billion today? Without knowing it, that man made himself an enemy of God because he is a murderer. Not many people will admit to being murderers but many will admit to being bitter against someone. Well, haters are murderers at heart and murderers don’t have the life of God in them (1 John3:15). Love covers multitude of sins (1 peter 4:8) but where there is no love, people commit all kinds of evil and violence against one another. Love makes you a friend of God because God is love personified. In the same way, bitterness (no matter the justification) expels a person from God’s presence because bitterness grieves the Holy Spirit. Without love you become an enemy of God.
9. Lovelessness Is An Invitation For Evil. Without love you indirectly invite Satan over. A person who walks in love carries the presence of God because God is love (1John 4:8) but where there is strife there is every kind of evil (James 3:16). That is why God said do not grieve the Holy Spirit (Eph 4:30) because if a person’s heart is not occupied by God, it will be occupied by Satan. It's that simple. I must emphasize here that if God says DO NOT do something you would do yourself a favour to run from it. Don't even think twice about it and don't attempt it. If you do, the price might be too costly. There is no better way to invite Satan into one's life than by harboring bitterness and hatred.
Allow me to quickly share a personal experience with you. I have always known this truth but there was a particular day I thought I must let a friend know that what he was doing was not good. My heart was filled with bitterness and I was determined to stay that way forever. Right there in the centre of my bitter mind, a scripture dropped. "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit" It was so strong that it felt like my heart was going to stop. I had to make a choice: continue to hold that bitterness even when I know it grieves the Holy Spirit or let go and please God. I didn't have too much time so I choose forgiveness. That moment it was as if a river broke up in my heart. Things changed and the breakthrough that followed that night was sweeter than anything I have known. Each time I look back and realize the power of that simple obedience I want to just love all my enemies. Why? -Because it benefits me more than them. If you hate them you hurt yourself.
Do we still need more reasons to love? Do we need any more proves that a loveless life attracts huge self-imposed fines? It's now your choice: Will you continue to be bitter or would you let go and inhale fresh air in the New Year? You still have about five days to unwind and release everyone who hurt you in 2011. Do yourself a favour, fall in love tonight! Enjoy a merry Christmas and a happy new year!
