Relationships end, friends drift away, and even our own family members fail us at times. Human love is fickle and changing; even the strongest human love is tested in life’s trials. But God’s love is perfect, steadfast, and unchanging, and in His love, we can have strength as we face the challenges of the world as well as hope for eternity. Learn more about God’s love and what the Bible has to say about it.
God Is Love
The love of God is greater than anything we can imagine. He does more than just love us: He is love itself. It is only through His love that we are truly able to love others. Because God loves us, we have nothing to fear. As the Creator of the universe, He is sovereign over everything.
Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent His only Son into the world so that we might have life through Him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is brought to perfection in us…
God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him. In this is love brought to perfection among us, that we have confidence on the day of judgment because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment, and so one who fears is not yet perfect in love. We love because He first loved us.— 1 John 4:8-12, 16-19
God’s Love Is Unconditional
His love is not gained by anything we do in our own merit. The Bible states that God loved us while we were still sinners; His love abounds from His infinite goodness and mercy.
Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good person one might even find courage to die. But God proves His love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. How much more then, since we are now justified by his blood, will we be saved through Him from the wrath. Indeed, if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, once reconciled, will we be saved by His life. — Romans 5:7-10
God’s love is steadfast and unchanging. Though we may grow distant from Him or fickle in our attitude toward Him, He continues to love us.
Though the mountains fall away and the hills be shaken, My love shall never fall away from you nor my covenant of peace be shaken, says the Lord, who has mercy on you. — Isaiah 54:10
God’s Love Gives Us Assurance and Strength
Nothing can separate us from God’s love, and in His love, we have assurance of eternal life, and strength as we approach the trials of this world.
What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son but handed Him over for us all, how will He not also give us everything else along with Him?
What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?
No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. — Romans 8:31-32, 35, 37-39
The Bible states that God loved us while we were still sinners; His love abounds from His infinite goodness and mercy. God's love is steadfast and unchanging. Though we may grow distant from Him or fickle in our attitude toward Him, He continues to love us.
We need to learn to accept the reality of His love for us, so that our fears do not control us. First John 4:18 says that perfect love casts out fear. If you're afraid of facing a person or a situation in your life, God's love can help you put your fears to rest.
Her age during her pregnancy has varied up to 17 in apocryphal sources. In a large part, apocryphal texts are historically unreliable. According to ancient Jewish custom, Mary technically could have been betrothed at about 12, but some scholars hold the view that in Judea it typically happened later.
In fact, the key to developing your love walk is wonderfully simple. You do it by maintaining a close relationship with God—fellowshiping with Him, reading the Bible, praying and staying in union with Him. You can develop your faith further by acknowledging just how great God's love for you truly is.
What does 'perfect love' mean? Earlier in John 4:16, John proclaims that “God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” Perfect love is an expression of God's love for us, and it is only complete (or perfect) when we reflect it back onto Him.
1 John 3:1 - "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!" Jeremiah 31:3 - "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness." Zephaniah 3:17 - "The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save.
Jesus left the glory of heaven to die so than man could be saved. Jesus preached the gospel to the poor, healed the brokenhearted, set the captives free, and caused the blind to see and the lame walk. Love, mercy and compassion were His way of life. He became a man that He might reach man's needs.
NIV Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. NASB Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant.
1 John 4:18 reads, “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.” The ultimate punishment or fear is separation from God.
agape. Original Greek: ἀγάπη (agápē) Agape is often defined as unconditional, sacrificial love. Agape is the kind of love that is felt by a person willing to do anything for another, including sacrificing themselves, without expecting anything in return.
A careful look at the New Testament shows that Mary kept her vow of virginity and never had any children other than Jesus. When Jesus was found in the Temple at age twelve, the context suggests that he was the only son of Mary and Joseph.
According to Mark 6:3 Jesus had four brothers (and two sisters): "Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon?
To walk in love means to be content with what you have and to pursue sharing it with other people. Life is not about how much I can get. It's about how much I can give for the glory of God.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
A walk in love builds up the confidence that you will be accepted by God on the day of judgement: you will be at peace, without shame and reproach. You will not be afraid of death because you are sure of eternity with Jesus. You are a carrier of God's presence when you walk in the love of God.
To open your heart, begin with self-love first.Then, create emotional flow, integrate wisdom from the past, practice breathwork, and receive support from others. As you do, you have more and more space in your heart to receive the love you most desire.
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