Love is the personality of God. Who knows God knows Love. Power comes through love.
Love is something we've been trying to understand for decades, but apparently we still fall short.
If we do not love God first, we cannot love anyone else. When we know how to love God and seek Him first, it is easier to love people.
Many times we live to receive man's approval. We also sometimes accept or go along with what is wrong, so as not to offend anyone. But the Bible teaches us that love casts out all fear.
When we replace God's love with fear of people, we will be easily moved and influenced. But when we keep our relationship with God as our priority, nothing can move us. We will not be intimidated by what we see around us.
What is the purpose of the command of love?
“As the Father has loved me, so I have also loved you; remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love. These things I have spoken to you, so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be fulfilled. " - John 15: 9-11
In this verse, Jesus says: "As the Father has loved me, so also I have loved you." What Jesus was saying is that we are not different from Him. He sees us as who we really are.
Jesus also said, "If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love." The purpose of the commandments is that we can remain in His love. If we love God, we will never want to break His law. If we violate His commandments, we are not abiding in His love.
Can you love God and know consciously that you are grieving or saddening him? No. Can a transgressor love God and still be a transgressor? No. God's love changes us.
If we keep the commandments, we will please God. Anyone who keeps the commandments will benefit from His favor.
"And the second is similar: You will love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. Then the scribe said to him: Well, Master, you have said truth, that one is God, and there is no one other than him; and loving him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and loving the neighbor as oneself, is more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices ”. - Mark 12: 31-33
When we love someone and see him as our neighbor, we see him as we see ourselves. In the body of Christ, by the blood of Jesus, loving one another exceeded the limit of the law. Jesus understood who His neighbor was, so He acted as He did with the Jews and the Gentiles. Our neighbor is every brother and sister in Christ. Our neighbor is anyone who is part of our lives.
