Title: What is Love?
Text:
Proverbs 10:12 (ESV)
12 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Observation:
When you think about the bible and love you would expect to look to the Apostle John's writings for the last word on love.
However, it is in the writing of the Apostle Paul that we find this soaring prayer and great hymn of love. Love is so vast that it is beyond the vocabulary of man to grasp in words. This is what Paul said about the vastness of love.
Ephesians 3:17-19 (ESV)
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
In another letter Paul stretches to help God's people understand the concept of biblical love; he did not define it, but he describes it like this.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (ESV)
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Prayer:
Father God, Sovereign Lord, we bow in awe as we think about the vastness and the endurance of love. Father, may the love that you have poured out into our hearts be like a river that flows from us into the lives of those we encounter along life's highways and byways. In Jesus name, Amen.
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Acts 6:4 (KJV)
4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
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