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. 1 Corinthians 13:1 NIV
Love is giving. One of the greatest problem of the world today is a lack of lobe. 1 Corinthians 13:-11 says love suffers long....this means love is extremely patient. That if we love someone we will be extremely tolerant of them and their shortcomings.
Love says we must give them a long rope. If everyone could love one another as we ought to do life would almost be utopian because there would be no quarrel.
It says also love is kind. But the natural tendency of people is to instinctively be unkind. Why are people not kind?
- Self preservation
- Self centeredness
Love is extremely humble. It does not lift itself up and is not proud or arrogant. We mist maintain our humility, normalcy, humanity and our originality that reminds us that we are no one without God.
Remember that the first bath you have someone will give it to you, the last bath you will have also someone will give it to you after you are dead.
According to to Greek there are 3 kinds of love but we speak of the love that comes of God. 1 John tells us that God is love and when we say we love, we simply mean we reflect God as an extension to our fellow mankind.
Love is an expression that never fails. It is how we express our feelings of gratitude, kindness, patience, humility, neighborliness towards man.
If you can pray and make the sun and moon stand still, the bible says one day it will fail. If we become as wise as Solomon the king of Israel, one day the wisdom will fail us. However, love will not fail you.
Love is greater than the strongest faith, it is better than the strongest hope. The love that reflects God will stand the test of time, it will pull you through the hardest times and give you the strength to go on.
God loves us greatly John 3:16. Anytime we think about God we should think more of a loving God
Jesus Christ loves us greatly that He gave His life for us. John 15:17
God wants us to love one another. 1 Thessalonians 1:5
If you truly love your neighbor you would have obeyed every law. Romans 13:8
- Love is an evidence of Christian growth. If you are growing in Christ you would truly love irrespective of who your neighbor is. 1 Thessalonians 3:12
- Love is a strong affection for another, unselfish benevolent towards your neighbor. (Webster dictionary). This is how the bible describes love
- Love suffers long, love says we must tolerate people for a long time
- Love is actively kind. A person who loves looks around for people they may show kindness to.
- Love does not envy. It doesn't want for itself what belongs to another. It is not angry with another person for what they have.
- Love is humble, not puffed up. It does not place a higher value on himself than another person
- It does not behave un seemingly, does no evil to oneself or to others
- Love does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in truth
- Love will always give you the benefit of the doubt.
If you truly love somebody;
- You will accept the person as they are Ephesians 4:2 and not as what you think they should be. Do not have the mind to change them.
- You will speak good of one another and do good to one another. Hebrews 10:6... Look for a way of edifying and not destroying people. Correct in love with an attitude that lifts people up and not to pull them down or to break their spirit. Find something good to say about somebody because there is always something nice to say about them.
- You will not quarrel or fight one another Romans 12:8, 1 Corinthians 13:7. You will not seek for a way to have your own back because a person has offended you. Love does not attack or antagonize people. You can disagree but you do not need to fight.
