What is Love? (a summary)

I would like to get where I post daily or every other day; but I want to try and focus on things that I feel need to be shared in order to encourage and uplift those that are willing to take the time to read my entries. It's about time for a good poem to be posted out here, so expect one sometime within this next week.

When you tell someone you love them, what does that mean to you? What does it mean to them? I want to take some time today to talk about Love. The reason is that it is so important. I think Love is the main indicator of our walk in Christ. As we learn to grow in Him, to trust Him and to love Him, He gives us the ability to give that out to others.

I encourage you to take a moment to read I Cor 13. I know you may know it already and have read it multiple times, but it is worth it to refresh yourself on what it means to love. What it looks like, what it feels like, how it treats self and others. I will include the chapter in this next paragraph, just skip if you are reading on your own.

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 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 truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

There are many versus dealing with love in the Bible. I want to briefly bring it to everyone's attention though that Love is completely selfless. If we love, it will be seen in how we respond as well as our actions. If someone asks you to go out of your way for them, on the worst day they could ask it of you, how do you respond? Do you allow God to work through you as a vessel of love or do you act selfishly?

I have been working on this personally in my life. As you let go of self and let God, He will reveal himself in multiple ways. Some of those ways are to build that love, faith and new being He is creating you to be. If we can't handle the small trials and tests we face, how can we handle the big ones? Focus on Him today. Ensure you are keeping your eyes on Him. He will direct your path and see you through to the other side.