Love. Love. Love.

Love:
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 & 13
⁴ Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
⁵ does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Love is taken lightly by many people, as I have seen over time. There are so many divorces in the world today. There are so many things that just shows that love is conditional for many. We should all love with unconditional love. It doesn't matter what someone does, you should never stop loving them for a mistake or simply because you are tired are them. No, love endures all things -

When I think of love, I think of how God loves us. It doesn't matter if we mess up because He will always love us through it all!  God is love.

1 John 4: 7-21

Knowing God Through Love

   ⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. ⁸ He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. ⁹ In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Seeing God Through Love

   ¹² No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. ¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

The Consummation of Love

   ¹⁷ Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. ¹⁹ We love Him because He first loved us.

Obedience by Faith

   ²⁰ If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? ²¹ And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

The Bible even says to love our enemies and bless those who curse us - That goes to show even more so that love should not be taken lightly in any sense.

There has been a lot going on around me lately, and this subject has been heavy on my heart - I could write down so much more and add many more scriptures, but I'm going to leave off here for now.
Much to ponder.

Love,