Love is...

Mat 22:35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
Mat 22:36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.


Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.


Rom 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.


Love is... having no other gods before God.
Love is... not making any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth, not bowing down thyself to them, nor serving them.
Love is... not taking the name of the LORD thy God in vain.
Love is... Remembering the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Love is... Honouring thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Love is... Not killing.
Love is... Not committing adultery.
Love is... Not stealing.
Love is... Not bearing false witness against thy neighbour.
Love is... Not coveting thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.


Most of us will recognize the following.


Charity is... suffering long
Charity is... kind
Charity is... envying not
Charity is... vaunting not itself
Charity is... not puffed up
Charity is... not behaving itself unseemly
Charity is... seeking not her own
Charity is... not easily provoked
Charity is... thinking no evil
Charity is... rejoicing not in iniquity, but rejoicing in the truth
Charity is... bearing all things
Charity is... believing all things
Charity is... hoping all things
Charity is... enduring all things
Charity is... never failing


We know for a fact that loving someone is not harming them in any way. We know for a fact when we love we look out for the others best interests no matter what that entails. That old saying if you love something set it free, love automatically allows for freedom because it's not imprisoning in any way. Children believe their parents don't love them when they put up restrictions, but the parents know it is because they do love them they erect the restrictions to protect their children.


God would have us know Him and in knowing Him we learn love. God didn't leave us without instructions, but over and over reveals His love to us. Some would say God has only reveals His wrath, His ability to spread suffering and heartache, but that isn't true at all. We are given examples all through life of God's love and Satan's evil. Satan would have us believe that when God allows the evil to reign that it's a sign of His own evil, not love. God allows the evil to exist, but it will only exist for a short while compared to eternity without any evil at all. We can't know the ways of God- our finite minds can't comprehend fully.


Job 11:7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?


We have to believe in God.


Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.


In believing we come to know the love of God and our lives reflect that love. If our lives fail to reflect that love something isn't right- because believing alone is not enough. Devils believe.


Jas 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.


By the grace and mercy of our Lord and Savior may we believe and live in Him, for Him, all in love for God is love.