"I want to know what love is. I want you to show me...." Have you ever heard that song? Those are lyrics from a song in the early 80s. Yes, I am dating myself a little because that was the golden age of music for me. But it's a popular theme these days. We want to experience love. We want to be in love. We want to feel love.
It's interesting that in every song on the radio and for most people when you ask them about love, they tell you that they want some feeling associated with love. Have you ever heard someone refer to love as a matter of the heart? Have you ever someone say follow your heart? Most of the time that means follow your feelings and let me tell you that can lead to disaster.
Another song from my day said, "What is love, baby don't hurt me...." So let's tackle things that describe love in general. First of all, we know that God is love because the bible says that He is. That means that God equals love and Love equals God. I will talk in more detail about many of the attributes in later blogs but let's look at a few attributes of Love.
The Bible says, "Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand it's own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
I want you to notice something about these verses. Most of the attributes of love listed are action verbs, not feeling verbs. How many times to you hear people say, "I feel patient" or "I feel kind"? I don't know if I have ever. I have been patient with people and I've been kind to people but I don't know if I've ever felt kind.
Take a look at something else. All these attributes are things that we DO to other people. Did you notice that not once do these verses say that we should be expecting this from someone else? Now you might say that if someone is ACTING this way toward you then they are not acting in love and I won't argue that but if we are walking in love, then we won't keep record of being wronged. Let me be clear, I am not saying that if someone is abusive to you that you should stay in the relationship and never keep record of being abused. If you are in an abusive relationship, get out! But when you do, then chose to walk in love and forgive.
It's when we get past feelings and start living into Love the way God sees love, then we will experience the greatest victories in our lives. The Bible says that Love never fails. Are you worrying about your parents? Are you worrying about your kids? Are you worrying about some other person? Then make the decision to act and walk in Love with them.
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It's interesting that in every song on the radio and for most people when you ask them about love, they tell you that they want some feeling associated with love. Have you ever heard someone refer to love as a matter of the heart? Have you ever someone say follow your heart? Most of the time that means follow your feelings and let me tell you that can lead to disaster.
Another song from my day said, "What is love, baby don't hurt me...." So let's tackle things that describe love in general. First of all, we know that God is love because the bible says that He is. That means that God equals love and Love equals God. I will talk in more detail about many of the attributes in later blogs but let's look at a few attributes of Love.
The Bible says, "Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand it's own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
I want you to notice something about these verses. Most of the attributes of love listed are action verbs, not feeling verbs. How many times to you hear people say, "I feel patient" or "I feel kind"? I don't know if I have ever. I have been patient with people and I've been kind to people but I don't know if I've ever felt kind.
Take a look at something else. All these attributes are things that we DO to other people. Did you notice that not once do these verses say that we should be expecting this from someone else? Now you might say that if someone is ACTING this way toward you then they are not acting in love and I won't argue that but if we are walking in love, then we won't keep record of being wronged. Let me be clear, I am not saying that if someone is abusive to you that you should stay in the relationship and never keep record of being abused. If you are in an abusive relationship, get out! But when you do, then chose to walk in love and forgive.
It's when we get past feelings and start living into Love the way God sees love, then we will experience the greatest victories in our lives. The Bible says that Love never fails. Are you worrying about your parents? Are you worrying about your kids? Are you worrying about some other person? Then make the decision to act and walk in Love with them.
That's another Opinion of the Minion
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