“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” —Mother Teresa
The month of February is a month known for love. We all either love Valentine’s Day or hate it depending on where we are in life. This week we are going to take a look at some of the characteristics of real “Love”, today Part 1 will be on “Commitment.”
Most connect love with a feeling. Love can start with a feeling but real love is a commitment. People say, “I feel in love” or “I feel out of love”. That isn’t possible. If it’s something we fall in or out of how is it God is Love. How is it the Word became flesh and dwelt among us? How is it that God so loved the World He gave His only begotten Son to save us all? (John 3:16)
1 Corinthians 13:8-11 (NIV) “8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child; I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
If Love never fails how can we fall out of love? The scripture above is telling us it is childish to think that “Love” falls in the same category as other things, even very weighty spiritual things. This scripture tells us other things will cease but “Love” never ceases.
I heard a friend once say, “Lust turns to Rust”. This quote is a far cry from, “Love never fails.” I often tell people in seminars I hold that “Love” and “Lust” look alike in the early stages however one last the test of time the other does not. When true “Love” exists there is a commitment to the other person that supersedes feelings. The Wedding Vows are a good example for us to look at. In the Vows we say things such as, “In sickness and in health, good times and bad, in wealth and in times of lack...” These vows are said before God, friends and family. Witnesses can remind us when we are pressured to forget when the going gets rough. Love is public, lust is usually private.
Satan likes darkness. He likes secrets. Love is a public commitment and done in the light.
What to remember from today’s Blog? When the lights go out are you still in Love? Are you treating the person whom you love right and honorably? Are you covering your loved one or exposing them and visa versa?
1 Peter 4:8 (NIV) “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
Tomorrow Part 2 in our Love Series will be looking at having a Servants Heart.
Love is much deeper than a feeling. Love is a commitment we make to people to always treat that person right and honorably.–Jim Rohn
The month of February is a month known for love. We all either love Valentine’s Day or hate it depending on where we are in life. This week we are going to take a look at some of the characteristics of real “Love”, today Part 1 will be on “Commitment.”
Most connect love with a feeling. Love can start with a feeling but real love is a commitment. People say, “I feel in love” or “I feel out of love”. That isn’t possible. If it’s something we fall in or out of how is it God is Love. How is it the Word became flesh and dwelt among us? How is it that God so loved the World He gave His only begotten Son to save us all? (John 3:16)
1 Corinthians 13:8-11 (NIV) “8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child; I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
If Love never fails how can we fall out of love? The scripture above is telling us it is childish to think that “Love” falls in the same category as other things, even very weighty spiritual things. This scripture tells us other things will cease but “Love” never ceases.
I heard a friend once say, “Lust turns to Rust”. This quote is a far cry from, “Love never fails.” I often tell people in seminars I hold that “Love” and “Lust” look alike in the early stages however one last the test of time the other does not. When true “Love” exists there is a commitment to the other person that supersedes feelings. The Wedding Vows are a good example for us to look at. In the Vows we say things such as, “In sickness and in health, good times and bad, in wealth and in times of lack...” These vows are said before God, friends and family. Witnesses can remind us when we are pressured to forget when the going gets rough. Love is public, lust is usually private.
Satan likes darkness. He likes secrets. Love is a public commitment and done in the light.
What to remember from today’s Blog? When the lights go out are you still in Love? Are you treating the person whom you love right and honorably? Are you covering your loved one or exposing them and visa versa?
1 Peter 4:8 (NIV) “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
Tomorrow Part 2 in our Love Series will be looking at having a Servants Heart.
Love is much deeper than a feeling. Love is a commitment we make to people to always treat that person right and honorably.–Jim Rohn
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