Love is not love! Not all love is created equal. Jesus said, No greater love than this, than he lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13). Then in Proverbs 7:10, 18 says, “Behold the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart…come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.” Friends, love is not love. One love is to lay down your life for another person, another love is transactional and they are not the same.

I was reminded this morning of the phrase, “Do for love, what you would not do for money.” We have been so dipped in a value for money, we have lost our love for God and people. Love that lays down its life, like John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world He gave His one and only begotten Son…” this kind of love is the highest value in the world. But money, transactional love, has so dipped us in its system of control, we do not even recognize it, but many lives are ruled by it.

The move of God happening right now is a move of love of the likes we do not even comprehend. It is a pulling us out of a system of transactions and inviting us into a system of love that lays down its life for one another, no strings attached. We are so suspicious of this kind of love, because it is foreign to us. We don’t know how to love without transaction and we don’t know how to receive a love that is not transactional. But God!!!!

We have grown cold, distant, exhausted and anxious because we have valued a transactional love, not a lay down our lives love. Love is not love, one is transactional and the other is laid down, no strings attached, just because of who you are as a person kind of love. Friends, the love revolution of the 70’s was transactional, but the love demonstration of the 2024’s and beyond is going to heal places and people in ways nothing else can. Faith, hope and love remain, but the greatest of these is love.