What’s LOVE Got To Do With It?

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I am no expert in love. If I were, I would be a billionaire. But Valentines day is around the corner and it started me thinking about love, or who deserves our love the most.

We all have love in us. We love items, pets, parents, family, friends, neighbors, strangers, etc..There are two-in-one I love the most, God our Father and Jesus Christ our Savior.

In Psalm 136 God loves us forever and beyond. It says so 26 times.

“He answered: ‘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 , ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” (Luke 10:27)

“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)

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)

“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13)

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Against such things there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22)

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 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. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.” (1 John 4:7-12).

“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.” (1 John 4:16)

From the examples above I conclude God is Love, nothing but love and His love is very different from human love. God’s love is unconditional. He loves us because He is love. He created us to have a loving relationship with Him, and He sacrificed His own Son to restore that relationship.

God created you out of pure love. God made you from His own image and with love. Whatever you have done, God has dissolved it already in his love even before you do it. God knows all of what you are going to do before you do it.

I love my parents. I love my family. I love my pets. I love my friends. I love you. When it comes to love, there is no one who deserves my love more than anyone or any thing; that is God and Jesus Christ.

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