Love has one motive: the interests of others. Concern for the interests of others is of a godly nature. That’s because God is love. He cares about all others, and acts accordingly.

In early eternity, He demonstrated the performance of love. When Lucifer and a third of the angels rebelled, God’s concern was for their interest. He didn’t force them to get in line with His ways. He didn’t snuff them out. He respected their interest to want to live apart from Him. Of course, He did the same for His rebellious humans too.

However, He did provide the way back to Him. He did that, simply because we live. Giving life to us was and is a precious joy to Him. It was the only way to truly create other beings with the opportunity to be as He is— loving and righteous in all to be done throughout eternity. Life’s purpose is for us to live in the glory of God. The road to that goal has been mapped out. An eternal, glorious state of being, He has set up for us. That state of existence, God knows, is in our best interest.

How can it not be? We will get to live life in its true normalcy; that is, a hundred percent clean and pure in righteousness; possessed with all knowledge and wisdom of the ages; living in a universe free of sickness, violence, and death; and forever sharing in all things under the feet of Christ.

What God does for humanity is always in terms of helping us to live with Him endlessly. For the sake of unbelievers, He has not hidden the outcome of rejecting the normalcy of life eternal. He’s made it known that apart from Him is a life of sin, which distorts or is an aberration of true life. Motivated by His love, He’s continuously, throughout the ages, fairly warned us that sin is a crime against life; and that sinners deserve and will receive a fatal punishment.

For the sake of believers, the Lord helps by modeling holiness and righteousness, going so far as to both cover us in it and to grow it within us. Also, He places His love in our hearts.

It is God’s will that we love as He loves— serving the interests of others. Look to do that in their worldly circumstances and in the salvation of their souls.

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God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5: 8.

Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. Phillipians 2: 3-5.

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PS: I have another posting that’s related to this one. It’s the mind-opening More Important than God. Click here to read it.