Love, It’s Love – 8 Scriptures to Guide You in Love | Loving Christ

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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