“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him”
1 John 4:16 (KJV)
If you are born again, walking in love is your new nature. You can love God and love people naturally because you have in you the love nature and ability of your heavenly Father. God is love and God is a spirit; this helps us understand that love is spiritual. Walking in the spirit is walking in love and walking in love is living in God. The only thing we owe each other is love. We are to always exemplify the love of God to all men because we owe them love (see Romans 13:8). Every action outside of love is against your nature and out of fellowship with the Father, which causes you to operate in the sense realm – the devil’s territory. “In his book titled The New Kind of Love, E. W. Kenyon puts it this way: “Love is the heart force of life, and it is the reason for life. The heart is the life of man and love is the life of the heart”
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy nor boast; it is not proud, rude, self-seeking, or easily angered. Love keeps no record of wrongs, and does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, trusts, hopes, and perseveres. Love never fails (never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end). (1 Corinthians 13:4-8). Love does not harm its neighbor. (Romans 13:10). We are to love even as Christ has loved us and gave Himself for us. Our Lord Jesus said “as much as I have loved you, love one another”. Love is an investment. We are to invest love to all men; this is the only continuing debt we owe the brethren. In Romans 13:8, the Bible tells us that we should not let any debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another. Love is in your heart and expressed in patience, kindness, protection, trust, hope, and perseverance, and you receive love in multiplied harvest. God wants to love the world through you, so be love-conscious and practice love all the time.
PRAYER/CONFESSION
Dear Father, I thank you for teaching me how to express my love, through patience, kindness, trust, hope, and perseverance in the name of the Lord Jesus.
WISDOM NUGGET
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)