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Nov 4, 2021 · There are many ways to love like God does. One way to love other people is by accepting them. Romans 15:7 says, “Accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory” (NLT).
- John 16:27. 27 No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
- Joshua 1:9. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”
- Jude 1:21. 21 keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
- Psalm 36:7. 7 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
- Understand What Love Is from A Biblical Perspective
- Acknowledge Our Dependence on The Holy Spirit
- Love God with All Our Heart
- Love God with All Our Soul
- Love God with All Our Mind
- Love God with All Our Strength
- Love Jesus Above Everyone and Everything Else
- Love God with Practical Actions
- Obey God’s Commands
- Love Our Neighbor
The word “love” has several meanings and, as such, can be applied to different situations. For example, there is the kind of love between a mother and her child, between friends, the romantic love between a man and a woman, etc. When we talk about the great love that Jesus referred to, some Scripture references translate it as “steadfast love.” It ...
We need to admit our inability to fulfill the great commandment of loving God by ourselves. The sinful nature of human beings makes it impossible for any of us to love like that. We depend on God to be able to love because He is love (1 John 4:8). We can only love Him because he loved us first (1 John 4:19). Love is part of the fruit of the Spirit ...
Jesus’s words from the good answer He gave to the scribe about the great commandment are a quote from Deuteronomy 6:4-5. It starts by telling us to love God with our whole hearts. Our contemporary culture understands the “heart” as the center of emotions, but the Jewish culture in Jesus’s times understood it as more than that. For them, the heart o...
God’s Word also tells us to love our Heavenly Father with our whole soul. The Hebrew word for “soul” gives the idea of the breath of life. The Greek word gives a more global idea of the inner self, the individual, the mind (in the sense of our deep thoughts). We can say that it is the non-physical part of the human being (Psalm 16:10; Ezekiel 18:4)...
God’s people must also love Him with their whole minds. The biblical meaning of “mind” is the intellect. The original Hebrew text of Deuteronomy 6:4-5 doesn’t include “mind,” it was considered by the Jewish culture as part of the soul. This part of the great commandment shows how important it is that our intelligence is submitted to God and finds s...
Jesus Christ also told us to love our God with our whole strength. We find the word “strength” in the Bible a lot of times, and most of them refer to the power of God. Strength refers to the physical aspect of loving God. It is how we show that we love Him and do everything we can to put our love for God into action. If our inner motivation and des...
Christ Jesus told His disciples that anyone who wants to follow Him must love Him more than everything and everyone else (Matthew 10:37; Luke 14:26). It doesn’t mean that we won’t love other people, on the contrary. Only by loving Him can we truly love others. But if we love something or someone more than God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), it is i...
We must keep in mind that biblical love is not only about feelings. When we read how God expressed His love for us in the well-known verse of John 3:16, we see that God did something for us – He gave His Son to die for us so we could have eternal life. There is no greater love than that (John 15:13). So, when we love someone, we do something about ...
In a short definition, we can say that loving God is to obey His commandments (John 14:15; 1 John 5:3). The Lord Jesus questioned the people who called Him “Lord” but didn’t do what He had told them to do (Luke 6:46). If He is the Lord of our lives, it means that He has ultimate authority over us, so we do what He tells us to do. It is simple, but ...
When Jesus said that we must love God with our whole being, He added that we must love our neighbor as we love ourselves (Mark 12:31, quoting from Leviticus 19:18). The apostle Paul wrote that this commandment fulfills the whole Law of God from the Old Testament (Galatians 5:14). God shows grace and expresses His love for the creation by giving goo...
- I Am Beloved.
- I Am a Masterpiece. “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10).
- I Am Chosen.
- I Am Holy. “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight” (Ephesians 1:4). God did not choose you because He looked through time and saw that you would be holy.
1 John 4:8. Verse Concepts. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 3:1. Verse Concepts. See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 1 John 4:16. Verse Concepts.
Jan 17, 2017 · We have no higher priorities in life than loving God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind, as well as loving our neighbor as we love ourselves (Luke 10:27). We should not waste one more day allowing anything to impede our pursuit of those two loves.
Sep 28, 2024 · Because God loved us first, we are called to love one another. This love is not just a command but a natural response to experiencing God's love. When we understand the depth of God's love for us, it compels us to love others in the same way. 1 John 4:7-8 emphasizes this: "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone ...
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