Valentine’s Day is just a few weeks away and February is a great time to set aside time to let our loved ones how much we love them. We can show love in so many ways, by holding a door open for the person behind us, by asking to do an errand for neighbor or by just giving someone a hug who is having a hard day. Love is about doing the right thing no matter the cost.
Jesus loved us so much He sacrificed His life for us on the cross. Love means so much more when a sacrifice has been made.
Memorize Monday – free coloring page 1 Corinthians 13:4 “Love is patient, love is kind…”
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Love can be complicated. So can life. God commands us to love, to love Him and our neighbor. What God asks of us is summed up in one simple four letter word, love. Galatians 5:14. 1 Corinthians 13:13 – Faith, hope and love… the greatest of these is love. How hard can those two simple commands be? For us humans, it can be pretty hard sometimes. What is it that makes this one simple command so hard sometimes?
The answer is simple. We can only love one thing at a time. Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13 explain that we can’t have one foot in the world and one serving God.
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.” as Matthew 6:24 states.
We may be living in this world but we don’t have to be a part of it. We can still enjoy most things in this world, they have their right place in our hearts and our lives. And how we use those things determines where our hearts are.
When our heart is divided it makes choosing difficult. Choose to love one another, choose to love God over the things this world has to offer. It can be tempting to want some things of this world, but Jesus knows all about being tempted – Matthew 4:1-11, but God has overcome the world – John 16:25-30. When we choose love now we are choosing something that will last into eternity.
Keep it simple, choose love, choose God first.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love
1 Corinthians 13:13
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Perfect LOVE drives out fear. God is perfect, God is LOVE, God is perfect LOVE and if we are anchored in Him and in His Word His love will drive out ALL fear.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:8
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Do everything in love.
1 Corinthians 16:14
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