Learning Through Love

A friend on Facebook shared a post about learning to love and asked her audience what that  means to you, and I answered with this response: 

For me, learning through love means that I view myself and others through the lens of the same love I receive from the LORD. By reflecting and meditating on the depths of His intimate love He gave me. Agape love. The highest form of love through service and humility. The kind that esteems another above myself. Just like how Jesus modeled. To know my Creator who designed me to be known by Him. Resting in that love (content) that is healing and transformative. Life changing and fruitful. And embracing my identity in Him based on what He says about me. A child of God. Dearly loved and forgiven. Valued and cherished. And complete (perfected) by His love that casts out fear, shame, and unbelief. Through ongoing learning and transformation. And sanctification where I'm becoming more holy like Him through refinement and weeding. The more I am nurtured in His love, the more I can walk securely and confidently in it. And extend that with grace and compassion I received to others.

"Because God first loved me, I now love others. But I'm learning how to love them. (As I learn how to love myself through understanding God's love for me)"-1 John 4:19