What is love?
Everybody seems to believe that love is a good thing. However, not all agree what is love. Is love that warm touchy-feely feeling a person has when he is with a familiar person? According to the Bible, love is caring in action. Love isn't what we feel, but what we do.
Love is….
Never fall in love with the concept of love. Instead fall in love with the Creator of it. Only through Him will you find your perfect other. Bc: Love is the greatest gift God ever gave man.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Take this passage phrase by phrase to see how God wants us to love.
Love is patient
The dictionary meaning for patient is; “bearing annoyance, pain, etc. without complaint or anger.”
So love will stand up through hard times for as long as it takes.
So love will stand up through hard times for as long as it takes.
And kind
Synonyms for this would be; gentle, tender, and compassionate. It implies a willingness to do well or to give pleasure.
Love is not jealous,
The word jealous implies being resentful or envious of other’s attainments.
Or boastful,
This is the habit of speaking with excessive pride or vanity. (Bragging) Facebook last night: 1 Corinthians 5:6 Your bragging is NOT good.
Or proud,
Being proud is believing in one’s power in some respect.
Being boastful or proud involves having your attention focused inward and not on others. (conceited)
Being boastful or proud involves having your attention focused inward and not on others. (conceited)
or rude
This is being discourteous (impolite) and is the opposite of being kind.
Love does not demand its own way.
Loving someone involves compromise. (give and take)
Love is not easily anger,
Being irritable is being easily moved to impatience or anger.
and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.
Each and every offense is forgiven and forgotten. (Forgive and forget)
It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Romans 12:15
When others are happy, be happy with them. If they are sad, share their sorrow.
When others are happy, be happy with them. If they are sad, share their sorrow.
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Love is strong through the good times and the bad.
Can we reflect this kind of love in our own lives? It is a tall order, yet we are told to love everyone, not just our husband, wife, family or even close friends. Proverbs 17:17 A friend LOVES at ALL times. (dads favorite verse)
John 15:12. I command you to love each other in the same way that I love you.
As you can see, this is a difficult commandment. On our own we are not able to love in the way God describes. Will you ask Him, today, to give you the strength to love as He commands it?
To describe the attitude of God toward His Son
(a) I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them." john 17:26.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
It was love, not nails, that kept jesus on the cross.
"For God so loved (agape) the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
The gift3 of God's son as a provision for sin4 was given to all humans,5 regardless of who we are.6 God's love is unconditional.7
In contrast, our love is usually conditional and based upon how other people behave toward us.
(b) But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
(c) Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” john 14:21
(d) This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10
(e) For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (Compel- beg or cry out). I am so unworthy, yet still you love me. Your love never changes. You are the creator of love and I am nothing but human. I need you God.
We love because HE first Loved us. On Google I typed the word ‘’Love” and got this. Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. Love is action. It’s a verb it’s what we do. The definition of love is: Jesus Christ. God is love, love is God. God is true love. Love is God’s greatest commandments in bible. Matthew 22:36-40 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
So I encourage you my friends to do as what the lord says, keep his commandments. To LOVE. In order to love others you first have to love yourself. Who doesn’t want to be love? Doesn’t everyone want too, because I know everyone in this room does. You can love someone in so many ways by first of all telling someone about the good news: Jesus Christ bring the word to them. Second telling them how much you and God loves them. Encouraging then being there for them making them smile and laugh, there’s tons of ways. My God pours He’s love towards and to me each and every day. How? Why? How, because each day I realized how bless I am to have LIFE. Bc he is life he is the creator of life. The reason why I breathe and I woke up this morning. How blessed I am to have freedom to read his word at school at home in the U.S. Also I’m blessed to have Christian family and friends that help each other in situations, encourage each other, and correct each other. Why does God pour out his raining love to me each and every day? Bc first of all I am not just a Christian I am a believe I am his most precious daughter of the king of kings and lord of lords. No one can stop us! I am proud of it and not ashamed of it as it says in Romans 1:16 favorite verse. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.” The LOVE JESUS has for you is the same yesterday, today, and forever. No matter how overwhelmed you may feel by your circumstances know that you can cry out to the Father and He will give you peace that surpasses anything you can understand!
If you are not a Christian, I hope you desire to express love as defined in the Bible. However, wanting to do so and attempting to do so in the power of your own will is guaranteed to fail. This kind of love is only possible through relying on the power of God, through faith in Jesus Christ. Even if you are a Christian, you will not succeed if you do not abide in Christ. May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ.11
John 15:12. I command you to love each other in the same way that I love you.
As you can see, this is a difficult commandment. On our own we are not able to love in the way God describes. Will you ask Him, today, to give you the strength to love as He commands it?
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