Love is …

Posted on 17 February 2011 by LeslieM

Have you ever heard of the term “tough love?”  People will say, “I think that person needs some tough love.” There is a new saying that is true that I heard the other day, and I think it’s the opposite of that term because “love is tough.”

Valentine’s Day just passed, and it is easy to love on special occasions like that. However, there are still many days left out of the year where some days are easy to show love, and some days, we have to work hard at showing love to others. How about showing someone love who doesn’t love you back or even someone who may not treat you the way you believe you deserve to be treated.

COLOSSIANS 3:14

14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony.

NLT

When we clothe ourselves with love, as this verse says, then love is all over us. Love should be a big part of our lives. Love is something meant to be expressed, not something to be kept a secret. It seems like people even have a hard time saying “I love you” when we should say it all the time, and we should also show it all the time. It is tough sometimes, but it is not impossible.

1 PETER 4:8

8 Above all things, have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins [forgives and disregards the offenses of others].

AMP

I must say that this verse is very hard to live out without God’s help. We have to understand that we need God’s help to love others in the same way that He loves us.  We always want to put conditions on love, but God does not do that to us. We speak with our actions and say I will love you if you do this for me, treat me this way, or buy me this, etc. God does not work on the point system and neither should we. God tells us to love others, period. There are no conditions on that love. God does not say love someone if they (fill in your own blank). God says love each other, and if God tells us to, then we must be able to do it. Love is so many things, but it is not conditional. Let’s look at what love is.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud

5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.

6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

NLT

Love gives us the ability to be sensitive to the needs, hurts and desires of others and also to feel with them and experience the world from their perspective. Love gives us the ability to give with no conditions or expectations. Love builds up and encourages; it is determining what is best for someone and doing it. Pray and ask God to help you love the way He loves and He will help you. I LOVE YOU!

Pastor Tony Guadagnino

Christian Love Fellowship Church

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