Lets talk about love. Love is the greatest and it abides forever, it never fails, and it always edifies.
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What is love?
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faroukfarouk
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John's First Epistle says:
"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be a propitiation (wrath-ending sacrifice) for our sins." (1 John 4.10)
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Love. It's sorta' inexplicable.
Love changes hearts from stone to flesh.
It also coaxes wounded souls to come out of their "hiding places".
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." ~Zora Neale Hurston
Love changes hearts from stone to flesh.
It also coaxes wounded souls to come out of their "hiding places".
"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." ~Zora Neale Hurston
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My short-as-possible definition is that love is giving up what you need/want/is good for what another person needs/wants/is good.
This is a description of God's nature, btw. Doing likewise transforms you more into God's likeness, and reveals God's power in and through you, faster than anything else.
This is a description of God's nature, btw. Doing likewise transforms you more into God's likeness, and reveals God's power in and through you, faster than anything else.
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Love is selfless and thinks more of others than of self.
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Yes, i agree, all glory to God. Without him i would not love. I dont even think i do love, but rather i try to follow it, and incorporate it into my life.John's First Epistle says:
"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be a propitiation (wrath-ending sacrifice) for our sins." (1 John 4.10)
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faroukfarouk
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Both in his Gospel, in his Epistles and in Revelation, love is a strong theme, as is the related theme of faith in the Son on God.
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I would agree. As the apostle Paul wrote: love edifies.
Romans 15New King James Version (NKJV)
Bearing Others’ Burdens
15 We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification. 3 For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.”
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Perhaps it can be said that love shows us our own selfishness, and corrects our thinking, through humility and chastening, from God.
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faroukfarouk
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Yes, it's an inward thing; not first and foremost about the outward flesh (although our lives can be transformed), but it's to do with the inward man (Ephesians 3) firstly, as if the flesh is inwardly tattooed, whether or not outwardly also.Love changes hearts to flesh.
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faroukfarouk
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.... so we need to get it right! as Scripture means it, rather than as what the world thinks of it.
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