We all must learn to love as God loves. So…
Since God is Love we can say …
God is patient, God is kind. God does not envy,
He does not boast, He is not proud.
He is not rude, He is not self-seeking, He is not easily angered,
He keeps no record of sins forgiven (Psalms 103:12).
God does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
He always protects. He is worthy of our trust.
He is the true object of our hope.
He always perseveres.
God never fails. (1Cor. 13:4-8)
Since Christ is God we can say … (John 1:1)
Christ is patient, Christ is kind. Christ does not envy,
He does not boast, He is not proud.
He is not rude, He is not self-seeking, He is not easily angered,
He keeps no record of sins forgiven.
Christ does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
Christ always protects. Christ is worthy of our trust.
Christ is the true object of our hope.
Christ always perseveres.
Christ never fails.
Since we are His children we can say … (John 1:12)
Christ is patient with (Your name here),
Christ is kind to (Your name here).
Christ is not rude to (Your name here),
Christ is not easily angered by (Your name here),
Christ keeps no records of (Your name here)’s sins already forgiven.
He does not delight in evil done to (Your name here) but rejoices with the truth.
He always protects (Your name here). He is worthy of (Your name here) trust.
He is (Your name here)’s true hope.
He always perseveres.
He never fails (Your name here).
Since we are to love as Christ loved it must be true that… (Eph. 5:2)
(_____your name here_____) is patient with (_____your name here_____),
(_____your name here_____) is kind to (_____your name here_____).
(_____your name here_____) is not rude to (_____your name here_____),
(_____your name here_____) is not easily angered by (_____your name here_____),
(_____your name here_____) keeps no records of (_____your name here_____)’s sins already forgiven.
(_____your name here_____) does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
(_____your name here_____) always protects (_____your name here_____),
(_____your name here_____) always trusts (_____your name here_____),
(_____your name here_____) always gives (_____your name here_____) the benefit of the doubt,
(_____your name here_____) always perseveres.
(_____your name here_____) strives to never fail (_____your name here_____).
You are right. What we call love is often a thinly veiled lust. Hmm!
Be doers of the word…said James. Which is exactly what loving (#1 command) is. It’s easy to love someone like our children, best friend, etc… It’s hard to love that person who does everything the way you wouldn’t, or someone who hurt your child. However God said to love our enemy. I couldn’t figure out how for years. Then God gave me a big lesson in forgiveness and love. My daughters was sexual assaulted and the offender now works at our only grocery store. We must look him in the eye almost every day. Then came the “doing”. It’s hard to help someone like that, but God said love our enemies. The lesson I’ve learned from God is awesome. That’s love.
The tummy tickles we get from the love of our lives is often mistaken as love. This is not love, this is lust. Love comes after lust. We lust without trying; love takes much effort.
At least that’s what I think.
Angela
Thank you practical insightful loving
Your are so right. Loving in deed not in word.
That was a practical assessment of love. My question to everyone then is, are we demonstrating the love of God?
We should quit saying’i love you’ and demonstrate love by being kind, keeping no records of wrong doings, being slow to anger…
That speaks volumes of love!!
Lilian