Love

[godmadeentreprenuer]

what is love????????????? 

[Sower]

19 hours ago, godmadeentreprenuer said:

what is love????????????? 

Joh_15:13  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

[brakelite]

Love is selflessness. It is self-sacrificial giving. It is the fulfilment of the law, and the benchmark of greatest commandment of the law. It is the character and nature of God. Jesus came [partly] to show us the nature of the Father...thus Jesus is love personified.

If you want to know what love truly is...read the gospel of John.

PS. Love is what we are to reveal if we claim to be recreated in the image of Jesus. It is the first and foremost virtue which naturally results from the Christian's relationship with God.

KJV 1 John 4
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
 

Edited November 30, 2017 by brakelite

[simplejeff]

20 hours ago, godmadeentreprenuer said:

what is love????????????? 

Usually it is destructive - hating the truth, desiring feelings and worldly things more than truth, opposed to God and His Plan and even boasted in and enjoyed (in opposition to true life in Jesus) and instead of His True Love.

[Your closest friendnt]

On 11/29/2017 at 12:31 PM, godmadeentreprenuer said:

what is love????????????? 

That's not a simle question. 

Just to give an answer to your question, I may say not to seek to take revenge.  

Sometimes to accept to suffer loss. 

I don't mean to live in denial and blind our selfs. 

We need to learn to protect our selfs, and recognize that not everyone has learned to live in peace with one another, and measures have to be taken for the common good. 

It is the same thing with Jesus towards us, he does not seek to take revenge on us, but to correct and disipline for our and the common good. 

Without being too strict to us. 

Unless he has given us a very special mission, like Paul and we need to bring it to fruition. 

Paul had to provide for the family of Jesus Christ, and we need to provide for our family, without putting our selfs first. Just like Paul. 

[listener24]

'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

An aspect of Love is just the realization that the happiness of your brother is as important as your happiness, therefore as you do as much as possible to be happy, you should do as much as possible so that your brother will be happy.

And we are all siblings in God.

Moreover, contemplating the unconditional love that the Father gives us, it's a great fuel to our love. When you feel loved, it's easier to love too, and in the infinitely loving message from the Father we can get so much love, to spread into the world.

Finally, in my opinion, gratitude is a state very related to love. The one who is incapable of holding gratitude, is hardly able to love. 

 

Edited December 1, 2017 by listener24

[HisFirst]

God is love - 1 John 4:8

 

1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

 

[4LdKHVCzRDj2]

2 hours ago, HisFirst said:

God is love - 1 John 4:8

1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

"Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word;
and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him." - John 14:23

 

That is, when we truly love we do not seek to do our own will but the will of Him who sent us.

"Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work." - John 4:34

 

"So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”" - John 20:21

 

"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me." - John 13:20

 

If you receive these words you receive Him, if you receive these words you love Him, and if you love Him you will be loved by the Father who sent Him.

"But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”" - Luke 8:21

"For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome." - 1 John 5:3

[JohnD]

Good question.

Love is truly putting the one you love above yourself.

The Greeks had 4 definitions of love. IMHO eros should not be among them as it is self centered. The rest are other centered.

Agapeo

phileo

storge

eros