God’s Standards to Find & Experience Love

Like Samson there are a lot of people finding “love” in various faces and places, but many of these are where God never intended for love to be found. As creator & sustainer, God has a supreme right to dictate standards to His creation and we know that He has clearly set standards for acceptable and unacceptable places for us to find/experience love. Here are just a few of those standards that God has communicated to us:

Do not let your mind focus on lustful thoughts/fantasies, or images—Matthew 5:28ff; Galatians 5:19.
A Christian (a Christ follower) must not marry a non-Christian—1 Corinthians 6:14.
Do not have sex with someone you are not married to—Exodus 20:14; Hebrews 13:4.
Do not view romantically someone of the same gender— Romans 1:24—27.
Do not have sex with someone of the same gender—1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:10.

Did you already know these standards & boundaries? Are you living them out in your own life? If you are struggling with any of these please remember that God loves you and wants you to get in line with His will so that you might experience the fullness of life as He intended it to be experienced. Remember that His forgiveness and mercy are available to you if you come to Him with a repentant heart (Lamentations 3:22-23), and that He can restore us (1 John 1:9; Joel 2:25).