Luke 10:25-28
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
LOVE-–– Without a doubt, we can all honestly state that “love” is the biggest and strongest human emotion we can ever experience. It seemingly impacts and impinges every level of our lives. It is a continuous process and feeling.
It encompasses so many issues and scenarios. It affects the way we interact with others, and how we may behave accordingly. Love is sentimental, it can be momentarily fleeting, or it can sustain us for a lifetime. It can break our hearts, it can overflow into rivers of gratitude, and it is a “gift” from the heavens above, from our LORD.
The Bible mentions and illustrates love in the OT to the NT. Strong men and women, in different stories and capacities, and at the center of the stories is love. And naturally leading up to the greatest love story of all time, “John 3:16.”
What does it mean to love God? How can we show God’s love to those around us? There are so many verses we can meditate upon to reflect and absorb pertaining to His love; 1 John 4:19, John 16:27, Psalm 143:8, Lamentations 3:22-23, Zephaniah 3:17 are just a few of many you might want to meditate upon.
God’s character and His love is unsurpassed by any other love known to humankind. He demonstrated His love over and over with His children, and listened to their cries, prayers along the way. He protected them, guided them, and ultimately saved them by sending His Son, Jesus Christ.
Love is a rewarding and powerfully strong sensation that truly yields to and from a Sovereign and Loving God.
In Galatians 5:22-23, we are informed that the fruit of the Spirit is namely “love.” With love, all else follows; joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; and when we utilize and fully engage in the acts of love, against such things there is no law. Love is the biggest emulsifier for all else. It is the quintessential adornment for what we can “life.” And when we think of “Life” we think of the LORD. For He is life, and He is our breath, and He is our everything…He is LOVE.
Experience His love for yourself, get to know Him through His Word, and get ready for an experience that is beyond our human grasp of understanding. An awakening of your soul by His love is tantamount to the very structure of our breath and life overall.
“My LORD, thank You, for Your inordinate love, it is Your love that created me, and it is Your love that sustains me, it is Your love the reason I love, and it is Your love that gives me LIFE, I love You forever, and always, in Jesus’ name, Amen.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 L
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
1 John 4:16
God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 4:8
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.