What does love look like? I often think of this passage used in the bible as a good description of love.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
God has left us a love letter scattered in the verses of the bible.
God first loved us:
We love him(God) because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19
We are called his children:
See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children....1 John 3:1
Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. 1 John 4:16
He protects us:
The Lord says, "I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name." Psalm 91:14
He knows us intimately:
And the very hairs on your head are numbered. So don't be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows. Matthew 10:30-31
Jesus replied, "All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them." John 14:23
See, I have written your name on the palms of my hand. Isaiah 49:16
Love and romance and is a gift from God (and He created it), which is the book Song of Songs. Just a few of the quotes:
I am my lover's, and my lover is mine. Song of Songs 6:3
You are altogether beautiful, my darling, beautiful in every way. Song of Songs 4:7
Song of Songs is so romantic and a great book to reread at this time of the year.
He died for us he loves us so:
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends. John 15:13
But God demonstrates his his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
Nothing can separate us from this love:
Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
No power in the sky above or in the earth below-indeed, nothing at all creation will able to ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35,37,39
One more quote and then I will save one for next week:
Your unfailing love is better than life itself; how I praise you! Psalm 63:3
Sherry
