What is
love?
Fun facts about love:
- Over 100 million songs written about love.
- Over 1,000 movies about love.
- Best love songs of all time:
- “This Magic Moment” by the Drifters.
- “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Brothers.
- “Stand by Me” by Ben E.
- “At Last” by Etta James.
- “Let's Stay Together” by Al Green
One of the
most prominent themes in our
culture is the
idea of love, but what is it,
really?
Without understanding that, in
God’s very nature,
God is love, we will miss the
importance of
loving God and
othersrightly.
“
God is love” is more than a
description of what God does in
relation to us; it is
who He is, in and of Himself.
Because
God is love, the
main proof that we are
God’s children is
shown in our
love toward
others.
1st John 4:7-12
7 Beloved,
let us love one another, for
love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and
knows God. 8Anyone who
does not love does
not know God, because
God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made
manifest among us, that God sent his
only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have 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. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and
His loveis
perfected in
us.
One of the
core ways that we are
shown to be children of God is that
we love others.
Love is the
core characteristic in the
spiritual DNA of those who
know God.
In the same way that children often will look
physically like their parents, and it shows that they are of them we are
known to be God’s children because of the
Godly love reflected in our
lives towards others.
What are some steps you can take this summer to grow deeper in your walk with God?
What can you do to love Him more and love others more?
Make this summer a summer of being a difference maker wherever you go.