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A friend once told me that "love-is doing something for somebody else." I think his explaniation was a little more complex than this, but this was the core of the point he was trying to make.
In some ways it makes alot of sense, after all, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.
Personally, I would say that this is a action of love not love itself. But, I don't know the truth of the matter, I'm still searching for what love is
In some ways it makes alot of sense, after all, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.
Personally, I would say that this is a action of love not love itself. But, I don't know the truth of the matter, I'm still searching for what love is
It is all there in I Cor. 13. Not what people like to hear necessarily, but it is all a matter of choice (choosing to be). It bypasses feelings and acts out of a place of sacrificial loving.
Read it first with the knowledge that this is the way you are loved by Christ. Because until you feel His love for you in this way, you are unable to make the choices that this chapter requires of you.
Read it first with the knowledge that this is the way you are loved by Christ. Because until you feel His love for you in this way, you are unable to make the choices that this chapter requires of you.
M
Love is a feeling from the heart that goes against what the mind is telling you. We are born with a desire to live yet when we fall in love we put the object of out desires above and before our own well-being. God displayed this in the most powerful way possible, He put us before His own perfect son.
T
1 Corinthians 13:4-7:
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant [SUP]5 [/SUP]or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; [SUP]6 [/SUP]it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. [SUP]7 [/SUP]It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant [SUP]5 [/SUP]or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; [SUP]6 [/SUP]it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. [SUP]7 [/SUP]It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
"We poor mortal men have only power to die, but Christ has power to live. Crown Him, then. Set a new crown upon His beloved head. Let other lovers who had died for their friends be crowned with silver, but for Jesus bring forth the golden diadem and set it upon the head of the Immortal who never needed to have died, and yet became a mortal, yielding Himself to death's pangs without necessity, except the necessity of His mighty love."
- Charles Spurgeon, from his sermon "Love's Crowning Deed"
- Charles Spurgeon, from his sermon "Love's Crowning Deed"
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Love is so many things. Scientists study how it affects our bodies, psychologists the mind, poets write of it, musicians sing and play of it... But it is defined and felt in so many different ways the responses to it are almost never universal when asked "What IS love?"
Well what is love not? It isn't boasting nor does it brag... it isn't self serving or keep a record of wrongs...
It IS patient. It is kind. So its selfless and sacrifices for others.
It is also many other things... As someone said love affects our minds to the point of acting similarly as a drug... It causes us to long for the other person and to feel so much at once.
There's a reason it is so often talked about. Love is an amazing force. So amazing that others will recognize a true Christian by their love for others... And we must love others as ourselves or thinking higher of them... Above all else we should love... and our spiritual gifts are rendered useless without love.
There are different types of love as well... In this instance I believe we are mainly discussing Eros however(romantic/sexual love).
Well what is love not? It isn't boasting nor does it brag... it isn't self serving or keep a record of wrongs...
It IS patient. It is kind. So its selfless and sacrifices for others.
It is also many other things... As someone said love affects our minds to the point of acting similarly as a drug... It causes us to long for the other person and to feel so much at once.
There's a reason it is so often talked about. Love is an amazing force. So amazing that others will recognize a true Christian by their love for others... And we must love others as ourselves or thinking higher of them... Above all else we should love... and our spiritual gifts are rendered useless without love.
There are different types of love as well... In this instance I believe we are mainly discussing Eros however(romantic/sexual love).