Looking for Love (from a Biblical Perspective)
So many people use your name in vain
Love
Those have faith in you sometimes go astray
Love
Through all the ups and downs the joy and hurt
Love
For better or worse I still will choose you first
Love - Musiq Soulchild
Love is something everyone wants. It's one of the most over-used, misused and under displayed words in the English language. It's been looked for in all the wrong places. Some go their whole life with out getting a taste of real love. Many songs have been written about this mysterious thing we call love. So I decided to really explore what Love is from a biblical standpoint. What does the bible say about love. What I found I share with you......
Genesis 29:20
So Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days. (NLT)
Proverbs 5:19
A loving doe, a graceful deer'"may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love. (NIV)
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs. (NIV)
Proverbs 13:24
Those who love their children care enough to discipline them. (NLT)
Proverbs 15:17
A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate. (NLT)
Proverbs 17:9
Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. (NLT)
Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. (NIV)
Proverbs 30:18-19
There are three things that amaze me'"
no, four things that I don't understand:
how an eagle glides through the sky,
how a snake slithers on a rock,
how a ship navigates the ocean,
how a man loves a woman. (NLT)
Song of Solomon 1:2
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth'" for your love is more delightful than wine. (NIV)
Song of Solomon 2:16
My lover is mine, and I am his. (NLT)
Song of Solomon 4:10
How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than any spice! (NIV)
Song of Solomon 8:6
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. (NIV)
Song of Solomon 8:7
Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned. (NIV)
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. (NIV)
1 Corinthians 13:1-8a and 13
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails....And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (NIV)
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. (NIV)
Ephesians 5:33
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. (NIV)
Colossians 3:14
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. (NIV)
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. (NIV)
1 John 3:16
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. (NIV)
1 John 3:18
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. (NIV)
1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (NIV)
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (NIV)
So if I learned one thing there is no greater love than God, cause God is Love and Love is God. Love is the ultimate act of selflessness. My desire is to be able to love my fellow man as God loves me. In closing I leave you with the words of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, "All you need is love, love, love is all you need."
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Post a CommentThank you Sistah Kenya, Songs Of Solomon is my favorite as well
I alove this piece because it expresses TRUE LOVE in all of its purpose. To understand that God is LOVE and Love is GOD!! Wow.. Thank you oh and of course my favorite is the Songs of Solomon..
thank you very much Christopher for ya feedback and continuous support!
and the reason that I put it in those terms is because it would take a Godly man to do what he did then considering how easy it is to meet women these days. No one is putting in more than a few months, let alone seven years, or if someone is, someone is playing hard to get, not really being won over. You can win a game with a woman, or you can care about that much, that deeply that you are willing to do whatever it takes to be with her.
The seven year thing is romantic and all but quite honestly, outside of God, there is no impetus to put that much work in. That sounds cold, but there is one thing in putting in seven years because you are that in love, or infatuated with the woman or even want her physically and another thing putting in seven years because you feel that she is worth that effort. There was a time and place I would do that, and perhaps it is because I have been married for a while, but I don't see that happening these days, then again I just speak for myself.