With February just a few days away, I wanted to share my thoughts on "love" and what it really looks like.Love is more than saying I love you with the love of the Lord. Nice words, but what do they really mean?
Love is visible when someone is there for me, when I need them. It’s being treated right when I make a mistake or need mercy or understanding.
Love is something that can be seen. It is seen in the fruit of the Spirit working in our lives, in our behavior and how we treat people. It sparkles in different ways depending upon how we look at it.
One common work for love in the Greek language was, eros, which suggested physical sexual desire and not much else. Another word, philos, suggested the esteem and affection found in a casual friendship. Then the Greek word, agape, describes a love that is based on the deliberate choice of the one who loves rather than the worthiness of the one who is loved. This kind of love goes against natural human inclination. It is a giving, selfless, expect nothing in return kind of love.
First Corinthians 13:4-8 tells us examples of what love looks like.
“Love suffers long and is kind, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil, rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth, love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.”
Think about this verse and what it says about love compared to your thoughts about love.
I will expound a little on what I believe love is in the next blog coming Feburary first.
May you be surrounded in our Heavenly Father’s love.
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