gamnot Posted February 8, 2018 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 221 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 64 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/23/2013 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/21/1945 Share Posted February 8, 2018 I have been on a lot of forums in which the word love is a hot topic. Some people do not believe that there is any such thing in the cold atheistic universe in which they live. The meme that someone started: "Love Wins" could be qualified to "grounded love wins" because some people take the meaning of the word to be pampering or the practice of telling everyone that they are really ok no matter what they do. Then it becomes a question of what groundedness means. Being grounded in such things as fidelity, prudence, temperance, etc. is what I would consider to be a good use of the word. ........................ The best of people and the worst of people frequently use the word love. The best of people use the word to communicate meaning and the worst of people use the word for purposes of manipulation and exploitation. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamnot Posted February 9, 2018 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 221 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 64 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/23/2013 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/21/1945 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 This post is relevant to our relation to our God as well as to our neighbor as well; Love grounded in fidelity, prudence, and temperance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted February 9, 2018 Group: Senior Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 686 Content Per Day: 0.30 Reputation: 221 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/16/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted February 9, 2018 37 minutes ago, gamnot said: Being grounded in such things as fidelity, prudence, temperance, etc. is what I would consider to be a good use of the word. Luke chapter 6 verse 32 "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. 1 John chapter 4 verse 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamnot Posted February 9, 2018 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 221 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 64 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/23/2013 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/21/1945 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 11 minutes ago, john1 said: Luke chapter 6 verse 32 "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. 1 John chapter 4 verse 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. True. We can love a person's innermost being without loving their bad behavior. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplejeff Posted February 9, 2018 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 12 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 7,689 Content Per Day: 2.41 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 20 Joined: 06/30/2015 Status: Offline Share Posted February 9, 2018 2 minutes ago, gamnot said: True. We can love a person's innermost being without loving their bad behavior. Actually you may find that love is more obedience - doing what is best for someone as God Says to do- DOing His Word, since that is what is best all the time, for anyone - so more to do with obedience than "feelings" or "emotions" ... As God Says CHOOSE who to follow, CHOOSE who to obey TODAY - the LORD JESUS, or the enemy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamnot Posted February 9, 2018 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 221 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 64 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/23/2013 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/21/1945 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 5 minutes ago, simplejeff said: Actually you may find that love is more obedience - doing what is best for someone as God Says to do- DOing His Word, since that is what is best all the time, for anyone - so more to do with obedience than "feelings" or "emotions" ... As God Says CHOOSE who to follow, CHOOSE who to obey TODAY - the LORD JESUS, or the enemy. It is best to find the straight and narrow path between sadism; the corruption of assertiveness and masochism; the corruption of compliance to one thing or another and to do this under God's direction and Biblical understanding. It is a matter of who or what you are obedient to. Feeling or emotions are fleeting, but sentiments or strong attitudes are long lasting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reformed Baptist Posted February 9, 2018 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 235 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 76 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/16/2013 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/01/1973 Share Posted February 9, 2018 13 "Greater love has no one than this, than1 to lay down one's life for his friends." (Joh 15:13 NKJ) This is the biblical concept of love - the disposition to go to any lengths for the well being and the good of the person whom is loved. This definitions flies in the face of the secular man centered worldview that is common today that makes love selfish, for many love is all about 'how I feel about another person' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frienduff thaylorde Posted February 9, 2018 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 17 Topic Count: 18 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 13,256 Content Per Day: 5.40 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 62 Joined: 07/07/2017 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/25/1972 Share Posted February 9, 2018 17 hours ago, simplejeff said: Actually you may find that love is more obedience - doing what is best for someone as God Says to do- DOing His Word, since that is what is best all the time, for anyone - so more to do with obedience than "feelings" or "emotions" ... As God Says CHOOSE who to follow, CHOOSE who to obey TODAY - the LORD JESUS, or the enemy. Every word JESUS ever spoke Shows the Love of GOD towards us. Every action he ever did from every warning to even dying on the cross, SHOWS THE LOVE OF GOD TOWARDS US . Thus if we have THE LOVE OF GOD WITHIN US WE WOULD LOVE JESUS < HIS SAYINGS ABOVE EVERYTHING OR ONE and by that love , using HIS sayings we would do all to both point the other to Christ and remind them TO walk as DID HE . What we LOVE is seen In what or who , WE OBEY. if we love the flesh the we obey the flesh, if we love the SPIRIT we obey the SPIRIT THE SPIRIT which would remind us all of what Christ has said. the key.............to show what LOVE IS TRULY on our hearts is seen by the evidence of what we truly LOVE . and the LOVE that comes from GOD rejoices ONLY N TRUTH and not in iniquity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted February 9, 2018 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,989 Topics Per Day: 0.49 Content Count: 48,687 Content Per Day: 11.89 Reputation: 30,342 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted February 9, 2018 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frienduff thaylorde Posted February 10, 2018 Group: Mars Hill Followers: 17 Topic Count: 18 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 13,256 Content Per Day: 5.40 Reputation: 1 Days Won: 62 Joined: 07/07/2017 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/25/1972 Share Posted February 10, 2018 7 hours ago, missmuffet said: 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. You loved sister . you loved now praise the Lord peoples , praise the Lord 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts