Love Is

Love Is

by Jym Wells
10/23/2015

I was studying yesterday and  my teacher opened my eyes to something that I have known however had not seen.  As I sat here this morning I was thinking, in fact since last night, Love is… then I went back to 1 John 4:8 (NIV) Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.  God is Love so if God is Love then Love has to be God.  To me that makes sense, so then reading something that I had read many time before all at once it hit me.  As I have been taught and did not see now I see it.

1 John 3:16-18(NIV)  16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. So LOVE is VERY important let us look farther and see in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (NIV)  1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.  Again we find without LOVE we are nothing.  A clanging cymbal, I am nothing, I gain nothing so would you agree if God is love then Love is God.

Let us look at this and if you will indulge me to add the name God to these scriptures I think you will see what I am going…

1 Corinthians 13:4-13  4 Love [God] is patient, love [God] is kind. It [God] does not envy, it [God] does not boast, it [God] is not proud. 5 It [God] does not dishonor others, it [God] is not self-seeking, it [God] is not easily angered, it [God] keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love [God] does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It [God] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love [God] never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

So maybe now we can look at our Father and see he is not up in heaven keeping score of the good or the bad. He is not up there looking for the wrong he is Love so He is LOVING us…  Let me end this with this though, why did Jesus give his life?  John 3:16  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. So could we say that Jesus died so that we might LIVE?

Memory Verse for October, 2015

1 Corinthians 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Thank you for reading and may God bless and be with you and watch over you. And America it is time for us to BLESS GOD again…

Isaiah 46:4 (NKJV) Even to your old age, I am He, And even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you.

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