I would like to bring a reflection to all of us in this moment of quarantine! Have we loved everyone around us the right way?
As many people are staying indoors with their family for almost full time in this quarantine period, disagreements end up happening. At some point we will disagree with those who live with us. Disagreeing is natural, but we need to be very careful and always base our relationships on what the Bible says.
Shall we talk a little about love? Come with me!
What does the Bible say about love?
“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
1 John 4: 7-8
It is not new that we must love one another. The Bible makes it very clear, not only through Jesus’s commandments and teachings, but also through the disciples and apostles, that we owe others as we love ourselves.
Right. But what would it be like to love? What would it be like to show love? How to love? For this, Paul wrote the following:
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.”
I Corinthians 13: 4-8
Paul shows us not only how to love, but also and especially the characteristics of love! Love must be unconditional, genuine (without any ulterior motives), just, true, persevering and resistant.
We challenge you!
Knowing these things, we at the JFA Bible decided to leave a challenge for you: LOVE MORE AND SHOW LOVE!
Take the opportunity to reconcile with your family and strengthen your family ties! The Lord is happy to see love in our midst! So show more love: hug, treat with care, care, help and do the right thing!
Don’t skimp on loving! God, in love, created us. We must be like Him and love unconditionally, even if it hurts and even if it is necessary to give up our pride!
Jesus loves you, so pass this love on!
Grace and peace.
God help us to love our families and neighbours so you loved us more..
Great! Thanks for sharing! I accept this Love More, Show Love Challenge!
Thanks again for the blog.
Beautiful
I think that’s a other kind of love. If we be kind and helpful and caring, that’s also a kind of love.
This is right on what i am needing to hear. My family has left me and i need to get better at this same topic. Thank you for givingg me this information as i have been praying day and night for their safe return. God is good and he is showing me signs of him working on this in the background. Everybody thay reads this please pray for my family, for my marriage and for our unity. God bless you all.
God, in the name of Jesus, I pray you heal restore and reconcile Derrick and his family. Make his marriage be the reflection of your relationship with the Church. Empower him to love and give himself for her as you did for the Church. God give Derrick the wisdom and understanding to lead his family. You are the God of second chances. Thank you God for giving Derrick and his family a second chance. Bless them indeed, enlarge their territory. Amen
Mr.Rocco team, Y’all hava genuine reltionship with God💓 seek continuously His will for yo lives & honor His will for yo lives, evidence prevails & I TY LORD for ALL YOU do through each of them!Love conquers ALL🕆John 3:16-17🕊
Do it as to the Lord, He sees our hearts EVERY pure intention & listens to our every word… Life & death are in the power of the tongue. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight…Hebrews4:13, 1Corinthians 1:10;13:4-5, Luke 6:38 …Let us not love with just words or tongue but with actions & in truth. 1 John 3:18
Help us to love our family, acquaintances, people who don’t like us, everyone Lord in Jesus Name. Great read. God bless y’all.
Why do i sometimes find it difficult to show my imotions to love and care for others?
Maybe it’s from an emotional wound or woundings. Get quiet before the LORD and allow Holy Spirit to minister Truth to you for healing. HE may lead you to a healing ministry.
JESUS is also Healer of our emotional wounds; Psalm 147:3, He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [curing their pains and their sorrows]. And Isaiah 53:4, But [in fact] He has borne our griefs,
And He has carried our sorrows and pains; Yet we [ignorantly] assumed that He was stricken, Struck down by God and degraded and humiliated [by Him].
Also, consider committing your mind, will, and emotions to HIM daily – after pleading the Blood over them all. We have mighty tools in Christ! I pray this is helpful, beloved.
Blessings in CHRIST JESUS. Shalom.
Love is everything
Love is what bring joy into homes and family
Thank you, i really needed to hear this.