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Perfect Love

    Why do we waste our time daydreaming about perfect people when we know they don't exist? What we also should know is that we have that fantasy available to us right now. Jesus is everything you could ever need and He fills up those holes in our hearts. He is the perfect person you long for to make you whole and only He can fulfill that position in your life.

    Don't think of Christianity as rules and regulations-- but think of it as a loving relationship with that person you long for. Don't read the Bible as if it were a textbook, but as a love letter. That's what it's really all about. If you give yourself over to Jesus Christ in an intimate, loving relationship it will change your entire existence and even affect those around you.

    Love Him above everything and everyone else and watch how love flows healthily in your life. You'll be amazed at how that simple interaction changes lives. Don't waste your time looking for love in places where only heartache awaits. Live out the first commandment and love Jesus Christ with everything you have.

Mark 12:30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. (NIV)

1 John 4:8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. (ESV)

1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us. (ESV)

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (ESV)

Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins. (ESV)

1 John 3:5 You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. (ESV)

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (NIV)

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