Love is the most powerful thing in the world with enormous potential to give life. For all the power of love, we still live in a world that thirsts for love. Everyone is looking for love. We are looking for love, think we've found, and then find ourselves disappointed when the feelings go away. But what is true love anyway? What is the love we all need and want? How will we know when we found it?
Depending on who does the talking and what is expressed, love means different things to different people. Two people can commit to love, but have different ideas about what it really means. Some believe being in love as an inexplicable feeling that we fall in and out, especially in today's society. Love can also mean a selfless act on behalf of others. Some use the word love to refer to a desire for sex. Even in everyday conversation, we use the word love to refer to a variety of things. For example, I love music and I love my computer, and I really love your hair like that.
Love can be a scary word because it can mean many different things to different people, it could ultimately mean something. Love makes us vulnerable to being hurt, misunderstood, embarrassed, or exploited. Some have been so hurt by the elusiveness of love they have given the word completely washed their hands.
I hope that after reading this article and study the scriptures for you to find love is not so difficult after all. It can even help us to distinguish between different types of love, before we go any further, then focus on the kind of Christian love of the Holy Spirit product or the love of God.
The Greek language has four words that describe this act of love. Not particularly care for Greek words, because I do not speak greek, but in this case, helps us to better understand Christian love.
The first is Eros. That's the word we get the word eros erotic and romantic. What basically is the chemical reaction between a man and a woman. During New Testament times the word eros is associated with lust. Love at this level is often self-centered.
The second word is Philia. Philia is the kind of human love that is because we appreciate the kindness of others. Sometimes we say we love her and she what I did in my time of need, or community or country. It is not romantic. There is increased recognition, admiration and respect.
The third word is love Storge. This is a love that is shared by family members, most of the time. Among the brothers and sisters spouses, parents and children. This love is often a prerequisite for any kind of relationship.
And then there's the meal, the word of the Bible uses the word and we are concerned here. This is not love I am loved because I love. I love you not because you need love. Agape is the kind of love that Jesus showed on the cross. Forgive those who persecuted him. This love is sacrifice, selflessness, and undeserved by the recipient.
It 'hard to love the love. Agape love is the hardest, because it is the love we feel do not deserve it, loving even though we know that we can not go back. The kind of love that the Holy Spirit works in us and gives us the chance to do the things we can do for yourself. No wonder that Paul gives a list of the first fruits of the Spirit.
One of the first steps to receive and release God's love is to recognize the difference between human love and the nature of the one true God of love. Corrupt nature of man has no access to God's love. God is love, and any man or woman who has not God, is separated from true love. The man's love and the love of God is not even in the same class. Basically, human love is selfish and God's love is totally selfless. Human love says I love you as long as you do what I want you. God's love is unconditional.
Corinthians 13:4-8 first list of the characteristics of God's love. Few understand and appreciate the uniqueness of God's love really is. We present the love of God similar to how they were loved. Our bad experiences prevent us from accepting God's love to bring our level of thinking, his love is conditional or proportional to our performance. This is how everyone loves us, but the love of God is different. It's like no other love I've ever experienced.
God's love never fails, even when we do. God's love is unconditional. We have done nothing to deserve it, and therefore God does not withdraw his love when you do not deserve it. God loves us because He is love, not because we are adorable.
When studying the properties of true love Get ready for a revelation that will change your life. Then take a decision to renew your mind in the love of God I ask the Lord to teach again, what his love is everything.
True love is patient and kind. Charity suffers long and is kind. The first characteristic of God recorded in 1 Corinthians 13 is patient and kind. There are two ways to apply these truths. As Christians we must be patient and kind to others, but also illustrates the way in which God acts toward us. God is love (1 Jn 4:08), and the reason why an act of love toward others, is because he has worked for us as love (1 Jn 4.19).
If you believe that God holds a grudge with you every time you do something wrong, you hold a grudge with others who are hurting. We give what we receive. If we can not receive the love that can not give. God does not ask more of us than he is willing to give. He tells us that suffers long and kind to others and then be angry with us. No! The Lord is long suffering and kind in dealing with us. Kindness and patience are the hallmarks of the kind of love of God for us.
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