Love requires you to unwrap the package and accept the gift, flaws and all.
HGQ
As I currently work on my last novel in the Church Love series, I am struck by how many quotes I can find on love, or rather someone's spin on it. Underneath the cute phrases, there's some envy, and some selfish motive involved. So, I set out to find what the scriptures say about love from God's perspective and what kind of light it sheds on the kind of love we say we are offering our significant others and our friends. Here's 5 verses and what I've found in them:
Love Lesson 1
Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.Love doesn't wait on anyone else to respond. Love is always the first to act, and the last to leave you.
Love Lesson 2
Romans 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
No matter how many rules you keep, you've broken them all if you don't love
Love Lesson 3
John 15:9-10 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
Love is a place and a person. People don't go to the place, if they don't feel it from the person.
Love Lesson 4
John 14:21-24 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me.
1 John 3:18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Love has proof.You can't say you love and then offer no evidence.
Love Lesson 5
Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Love doesn't back out during difficult times. Lust and selfish ambition does.
I encourage you to meditate on these verses and ask God to reveal to you more principles about this emotion called love. You'll be surprised at what He will speak as you meditate on His Word!
