Since Valentine's Day is just around the bend, I thought a little bit of 'Love' could be the perfect antidote for a cold, snowy day!
Love is the greatest thing in the world!
"And now abideth faith, hope, charity (love), these three; but the greatest of these is charity (love). I Corinthians 13:13
Love Inspires Love!
"We love him because he first loved us." 1 John 4:19
The Assurance of Love:
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28
Love Sacrifices!
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13
~Earthly love is a beautiful thing and it brings us much joy! It also brings much sorrow and sadness!
Earthly love will never be enough! We will never able to love enough as long as we rely on our own ability to give that love.
Oh, we want so badly to fill the needs of others with our love, to take away the sorrows of loved ones, to be everything to our spouses and children, or even to be loved the way we feel we need to be while we are here on this earth.
And as much as we want to be everything to those we love,
we can't.
The only love great enough is the love of Jesus!
He is perfect love!
In Him, all our hopes, dreams and longings will come true!
His love is our love and His joy is our joy and He will continue to give of His love so that we can continue to give love on this earth, though imperfect it will be!
We do not have to fret or worry about our imperfect love for He is always there filling us with His love so that we can give that love to others!
Someday, we will know perfect love~face to face~ and all our dreams will come true!
Until then, we need only accept His love into our hearts knowing that our imperfectness is made whole through Him, that He loves us unconditionally and with the most PERFECT love.
~Recently, I have had to learn this very important lesson. I understand now.
I pray that the love of Jesus will always be with us all, for He is guiding us and filling our days with gladness right this very minute.
We only need to accept it and be glad!
1 comment:
Once again as i read your blog i am so blessed!! I can't begin to tell you how encouraged i am by your words and the Words of our Lord! I truly believe that the only way to understand Christ's love is to first ACCEPT it thru HIS forgiveness of our sins . . .because just as the Word states, "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13 . . . "Above all love one another deeply because love covers a multitude of sins." 1 Peter 4:8 so, when we accept HIS gift of LOVE and forgiveness we are then free to LOVE and forgive like HE teaches by and thru HIS SPIRIT!
Lots of love,
Heather
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