Love, It’s Love!
It’s love! When ‘love’ is first mentioned, many minds jump to the idea of romantic love. However, let’s think instead about the true depth of God’s unconditional love for us. Christ calls us to live in that love, to know it within the depths of our being, and to share it in droves.
Many summers at church camp when I was a little girl, we sang a song called Magic Penny by Malvina Reynolds:
Love is something if you give it away,
Give it away, give it away.
Love is something if you give it away,
You end up having more.
It’s just like a magic penny,
Hold it tight and you won’t have any.”
Lend it, spend it, and you’ll have so many
They’ll roll all over the floor.
I love the message of this song. Give your love away. Live the way Christ calls us to live. Before you consider judging someone else (and we all do it – the way they dress, the lifestyle they choose, what they say), think instead of extending love. Deep, full, from the inside love. When you let the feeling of love consume you and lead your thoughts and actions, the desire to judge someone else falls away.
Love.
It’s love.
It’s all love.
God is love, and we are too.
Remember these 8 scriptures:
Love Covers a Multitude of Sins
First Peter 4:8 “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.”
If You Love Me, Obey My Commandments
John 14:15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
Love One Another
John 13:34-35 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
Mark 12:30-31 “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Love Is Unselfish
First Corinthians 12:4-8 “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
Love Your Enemies
Matthew 5:43-45 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”
A Friend’s Love
Proverbs 17:17 “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
Romantic Love
Genesis 29:20 “Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.”
Celebrate Valentine’s Day this year with your Lord. Think how can you apply these scriptures to your life today.
Jamie says
It still amazes me that God can love us so much, with what we are. Praise God for Jesus being in us, otherwise we might not feel that love. Great post!
Rach D says
Some wonderful scripture choices! Love it 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing with us on this week’s Mom 2 Mom Link Up! Hope you can join us again 🙂
Rachael @ Diamonds in the Rough
Julie Pfeifer says
So glad you stopped by. I love the link-up! God bless!
Sarah Ann says
Stopping by from Inspired Bloggers to read your beautiful post! What a beautiful reminder of biblical love and how God had a plan for every kind of love! I’m now following you and will be sharing these wonderful words on social media. 🙂
Julie Pfeifer says
I’m so happy you stopped by! God bless you!
Mary Hill says
I “love” these beautiful scriptures. Thanks for sharing! I will meditate on these. 🙂
Julie Pfeifer says
So glad, Mary! Thank you for commenting. God bless!