When you think of love and try to define it; it is more characteristic than definitive. God is love is about the best description of love you can give!
When Jesus was asked, “Master, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said unto him, “’Thou shall love the Lord Thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.’ ” This is the first and great commandment and, the second commandment is like unto it, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
On these two commandments have all the law and the prophets. Moses quoted by inspiration the same verse in Deuteronomy 6:5.
Scripture has copious verses about love. Most of the verses refer to God’s high holy love and His love that is shed abroad in our heart so that we can love like He loves. In Galatians 5:22, the first mentioned fruit of the Spirit is love.
Dwight L. Moody said that you can place the other eight fruits to encompass Love’s cycle. Joy is love showing excitement!
Peace is love resting; long suffering (patience) is love on trial; gentleness is love in action! The Christian battlefields flow with the blood of love. Meekness is love at school. Lastly, temperance is love in training.
In I Corinthians 13, scripture gives us an examination of how we are to love.
Eloquence without love is sounding brass and fake love as with a prostitute. If I prophecy, and astute in all mysteries, full of knowledge, and have not love, I am nothing.
No matter what or how much I sacrifice if it’s not with a loving heart, it is vain. Love endures and is kind.
It doesn’t exalt itself, not puffed up. Love acts right and is not easily provoked. Love does not act or think evil. It does not enjoy sin. Love is full of hope and love never fails. Where am I in all these descriptions? Not near enough to God I would confess and cry out, “O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of flesh?”
If this is not enough to warrant conviction and repentance, let me add a couple more. He that loveth not his brother reveals himself as a worldling.
We know we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren! He that loveth not his brother abideth in death (I John 3:10-15). How amazing in this text that because he laid down His life for us, we should be willing to lay ours down for our brother. John 15:12-13 reads, “This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you.”
So in my title, and as He has loved us, both are companions. He so loves, and we are to love “as.”
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