TRUE LOVE 1
There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love. We have the power of loving, because He first had love for us.
1 John 4:18-19 (BBE)
Beloved, God is love. Therefore no man or woman understands love more than God. “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). Anyone who has not received God’s love does not have what it takes to show true love.
What are the characteristics of true love?
- It has its foundation in God who is love. “. . . God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” (1 John 4:16).
- It is self -initiating. It takes action without being asked. “The moment Jacob spotted Rachel,… saw her arriving with his uncle Laban’s sheep, he went and singi e-handedly rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.” (Genesis 29:10. MSG)
- True love reserves sex before marriage. “NOW AS to the matters of which you wrote me. It is well fand by that I mean advantageous, expedient, profitable, and wholesome] for a man not to touch a woman [not to cohabit with her]” (1 Corinthians 7:1).
True love comes from God. Therefore, to love truly you must connect to God wholeheartedly and committedly.