The Proof of Life in Christ

When I was younger, I longed for acceptance, from my parents, siblings, friends, and teachers. I craved validation and approval, yet often felt unseen and unworthy. The girl I was sought to fill an emptiness that only genuine love could satisfy. Like many, I carried silent pain, wounds from rejection and abuse that shaped how I saw myself and others.

But that was my past. The woman I am today has learned that love heals what validation never could. Love reveals our worth, restores our peace, and reshapes our identity. You can stop being who pain made you and become who love designed you to be.

1 John 3:10 (AMPC)

“We know that we have passed over out of death into life by the fact that we love. He who does not love remains in death… By this it is made clear who take their nature from God and are His children… neither is anyone who does not love his brother of God.”

The Bible teaches that love is the proof that our flesh has been crucified and that we have passed from death to life. A carnal Christian cannot love by God’s standard because divine love flows only from the Spirit. Those who remain in hatred, envy, or selfishness remain in the Adamic nature, dead to true life. Love is not a human virtue; it is the nature of God.

Our call is to love, but to do so, we must stop being who we have always been in our natural way of thinking. The good news is that the capacity to love has already been placed within us—“the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.” This means love is not something we try to manufacture; it is something we release as we yield to the Spirit.

One who does not love does not know God, no matter how religious they appear. Love is not optional; it is our very identity in Christ. Love is the mark of the Spirit-filled life. It is the only true evidence that we have been transformed.

Love is your true nature. Love is what you’re made for. You already have what it takes to love because the Holy Spirit has filled your heart with it.

To love is to live, and to live is to die daily to pride, fear, and selfishness.

Love is not reciprocity; it is selflessness. The love of Christ is not earned, it is given. And that same love is the life we are called to live.