Walking into Love. (Chpt. 1)

Chapter I. The Beginning.

Groundwork:

Matthew 22.34-40

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments. 

I Corinthians 13.13. 

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I John 4.7-21

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes form God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgement, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, who he has not seen. And he has given us this commandment: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. 

Comments:

So this Love thing is kind of important, right? 

-Love is one of three things that will remain.

-Love the Lord God with all your heart, soul and mind

 

So, I'm trying to wrap my head around this thing called love (if I ever will?). 

So I simply began with this question:

How do people define love? (very interesting responses) How do I define love?

I think that I have a very vague definition of what love truly is. But I'm looking and searching for truth. And as always, He is very faithful to the very unfaithful (weird). 

My first attempt (but not the last) at defining love will be in the next blog! (In other words, I started writing a definition of love and began to realize that this could take awhile so I'll wait for tomorrow to write this "definition"). 

But I leave you with this last thought tonight:

"Faith, Hope and Love remains (abide), but the greatest of these is love"

What in the world does that mean? What does that mean about Faith and Hope?