'Love', the greatest gift by God

India
August 20, 2016 10:01am CST
Its these beautiful verses from the bible I would love to write down here and would love to proclaim the truth to all the viewers ' regarding 'The beauty of true and unconditional love' : Apostle Paul in the bible writes : 1.If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 .If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.3.If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:1-3) Description: I am not a true Christian if i don't practice love in Spirit and in truth ,all the other spiritual gifts i have are in vain without love ,I am the clanging cymbal ,just making noise.Though i have faith and I can move spiritual mountains,that's in vain if i don't possess love ,I am nothing.Even if i sacrifice myself without having love for God and make sacrifices to him or give my possessions to the poor,its all in vain if i don't have love..Without love i gain nothing,though i may speak of prophetic and spiritual things but from inside i don't have love ,its all useless.The only person who possessed unconditional love in the bible on earth was God,in the person of Jesus Christ .He loved everyone ,be it sinners or the righteous ,he loved them equally,so should our love be. The qualities of true and unconditional love : 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away (1 Corinthians 13:4-8) Description: Paul writes on the qualities of the mysterious and the wonderful truth called love.Its the unconditional and everlasting and unfailing love.Its not the love of this world he speaks about,he speaks on the wonderful qualities of the true and everlasting love which comes solely from God.If we carefully read all these qualities and study the bible carefully,we see all these qualities in Jesus.Only he loved people unconditionally.Though they were sinners he accepted them and even died for them.Died for sinners like us.What can be better love than this.He made us the children of God.He loves and accepts people as they are.He knows no partiality.So should we love each other as he loves us. So the moral is: 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13) Conclusion: From all the above verses we come to know ,how wonderful the power of unconditional love is!.Like God loves unconditionally ,so should we love each other.Be they of any religion or any caste,Love them because they are made in the image of God. Jesus said : "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.( John 13:34). Love to all. God bless you all.
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• Philippines
21 Aug 16
It's a wonderful thing to be in love, being loved, and to express those in our actions. Jesus tells his disciples that people will know us as disciples of Christ when we love one another. Truly, Jesus is the greatest example of love. He is called the Champion Of Love. There is nothing lovable in me, yet He left His throne above, came down to this earth, and die on the Cross to pay the penalty of my sins, so that I can have a chance of being with Him throughout eternity.
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• India
21 Aug 16
God bless you my brother from Philippines!
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• Australia
2 Dec 16
We must not allow our love to become wooden, and so lose its flowing movement which is taking us back to God
Paul certainly listed a lot of love's qualities, but do these describe it fully, adequately? What is this mysterious love of God for us really all about then? Love reaches out to us like a river reaches out to the ocean from whence it first come, and yet we push it away, when we leave the river instead, in order to make our own course of action on dry land. We need to stay in the river of love, of God's, and be perfected in this love, and it will return us to its source, to God. Only love can take us into heaven again. We cannot go it alone. We cannot do it on our own. We need to stay with his love. We must be perfected by this love, and allow it to remove all and sundry other sinful things from us.