Monday, August 4, 2008
how often do we wish for others to love us as much as we love them?...
and how often do we result in just us giving, most of the time and not receiving any, and end up finding ourselves tired out...
and how often do we want to be loved and be of some worth in people's eyes...
how often all boils down to self-worth...
how much do we see ourselves.. and what do we see ourselves as?...
people-pleaser? or a child of God..
getting this straight, how do we go about being one?..
when we are desperate for love and perhaps even attention from someone..
who do we turn to and what do we do?..
do we turn to our friends, get the latest clothes in line, coolest gadgets in town, to just gain that few moments of attention on you...
or do we turn to God, during our quiet time with Him.. getting the strength from Him.. getting the love from Him..
what would we do?...
in order to love others, we need to understand what is love...
the world has changed the perspective of love greatly and sadly...
yet everday the world has a new definition of love...
but in one place, the definition of love will never change..
in one book, the definition of love stays the same 2000 years ago, and it will stay the same 2000 years after..
it is the Bible...
1 Corinthians 13: 4-13 (ESV)
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
the Bible gives a clear definition on love.. teaches us how God defines love..
giving us so much details on God Himself, because God is love..
1 John 4:16 (NKJV)
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us.
God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
(NIV)
16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
God is love.. and children of God bearing the qualities of God.. we are empowered to love too.. love like how the Bible defines it simply because God is with us..
1 John 4:19 (ESV)
19 We love because he first loved us.
this is probably on of the few verses that is exactly the same be it what versions you are reading from.. because it is simple enough..
it is simple to understand.. we have the ability to love because He first loved us.. (:
God loves you and me (:
it took be 4 years, till now.. to understand the love of God.. and im still learning more about it each day.. His love and grace abounds so much...
the love of God.. brings life to dead..
the love of God.. brings power to a helpless..
the love of God.. brings hope to the hopeless..
the love of God.. brings abounding love to the loveless..
the love of God.. brings grace to all man...
Praise to Christ our Lord..
violetjoy signing off~
7:58 AM
