February Reflections on Love:
What Love Looks Like and Doesn’t Do Toward Others.
Dear Friend,
I want to take the month of February to share with you some old Blog posts I wrote in 2018 and 2019 about Love. Let’s go back a few years, when I first started my Blog writing journey, and read what I shared about love. All the way back to 2028 and 2019.
What Love Looks Like
To know what love looks like, we first must look at our precious, beloved Heavenly Father. He is love.
We can’t walk in pure love without first having a personal relationship with Him and a profound revelation of His Love. Next, we need to look in His Word to see what He wrote about how love is to look.
We both know of the famous love chapter in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13, but we will focus on some other scriptures and look at Corinthians 13 another time.
Romans 12:9-21 is an excellent place to read what the Words say about how Love looks. You can read the full address at your time. And I would encourage you to really study the meanings of the words. And maybe even look at different translations.
But I want to look at some of the verses in Romans. I am reading the AMPC translation. In verse 9, it says, Love is to be sincere and active [the real thing-without guile and hypocrisy]…….Verse 10 says, Be Devoted to one another with [authentic] brotherly affection [as members of one family], give preference to one another in honor.
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What Love Doesn’t Do
We looked at what love looks like in the previous post; now, let’s look at what love doesn’t do.
Blame –
One of the most dangerous things people can do is blame others for their problems. When you blame, you yield yourself to wrong, evil spirits.
True love doesn’t look to blame others for their own mistakes or circumstances out of their control.
True love will take the blame and take responsibility for their wrongdoing.
Taking the blame causes you to yield to the love of God and be used by God. It causes you to look into your heart and humbly change whatever needs to change.
These people are always grumbling and blaming others; they follow their own evil desires; they brag about themselves and flatter others in order to get their own way. Jude 1:16 (GNT)
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I hoped you enjoyed stepping back in time with me and re-reading these heartfelt posts. May we keep Jesus as our first and foremost love in our hearts as we celebrate our love with our loved ones. We can truly love them by first knowing God’s love. Stay tuned for more to come.
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