JESUS said:
John 15:12
King James Version
12 This is my commandment,
That ye love one another,
as I have loved you.
Do you long for love?
Have you found love?
What is true love?
Do you know what it is?
How did you come to know about it?
Who taught you?
Have you experienced true love?
Have you given true love?
How were you certain it was true love?
How do you want to be loved?
How did you want to have been loved?
Would you do something like this?
John 15:13
King James Version
13 Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his friends.
The world defines love in so many ways.
In ways I won't be expounding here.
My focus is on what JESUS taught.
On what pleases GOD.
On what SPIRIT, and Scripture, revealed.
Such as these things.
Which the King James Version calls "charity".
And other Bible versions call "love":
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
King James Version
13 Though I speak
with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not charity, I am become
as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge;
and though I have all faith,
so that I could remove mountains,
and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned,
and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
King James Version
4 Charity suffereth long,
and is kind;
charity envieth not;
charity vaunteth not itself,
is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly,
seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity,
but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things,
believeth all things,
hopeth all things,
endureth all things.
1 Corinthians 13:13
King James Version
13 And now abideth
faith, hope, charity,
these three;
but the greatest of these
is charity.
How are we able to love this way?
Only by being born again.
And having the SPIRIT of GOD in us.
JESUS commanded we be born again:
John 3:5-8
King James Version
5 Jesus answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth,
and thou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh,
and whither it goeth:
so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
We need to be born again, that we may be "born of the Spirit".
And when we are "born of the Spirit", we receive these gifts:
Galatians 5:22-23
King James Version
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law.
Because many are focused on romantic love, they miss one thing.
They miss the MOST IMPORTANT thing about love.
To love GOD first.
Through His Son, JESUS.
Giving your heart to JESUS doesn't mean you'll be a nun, or a priest.
Or that you'll never marry.
Giving your heart to the LORD means He will teach you
HOW to love.
He will lead you to the right person.
The right friendship.
The right marriage.
The right work.
The right way to praise GOD.
Who greater teacher, than the LORD JESUS?
Think deeply upon these things.
And measure your love by it.
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