Intro:
This is the time of year we celebrate romantic love. Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. I am amazed by how many scriptures there are that talk about the subject of love. In the concordance in the back of my Bible, it has pages and pages of scriptures about love. That would seem fitting, since God not only loves us immeasurably, but He IS Love (I John 4:16)! What an amazing concept. This week let’s find out what the Bible says about love. Here is your dailyeword.
Monday 11
The love chapter in I Corinthians 13 is often read at weddings and we smile and say how sweet it is. We think that those who have fresh romantic love, they’ll do all those things, but us old married folks sometimes get a little cynical. We shouldn’t!!!! (Lynn and I have been married since April of 1982. I guess we are now old married folks!) Those same descriptions of love should be how we treat our mates on a daily basis. Here’s a reminder from I Cor 13:4-8 of the kind of ways we show love to them…..
by operating in patience,
by being kind,
by not being proud, boastful or envious
By not being rude,
By not being self seeking (or selfish),
By not being easily angered,
and not keeping a list of wrongs.
By not being happy when evil happens to others,
but rejoicing when truth prevails.
We protect, trust, hope and persevere for those we love.
When we act that way, love will never fail. Love is not just something that we say, it really is something that we do.
There is a great song with that same title….Something That We Do…. Here are some of the lyrics.
“Love isn’t something that we find…it’s something that we do.
It’s holding tight, and letting go,
it’s flying high and laying low,
let your strongest feelings show and your weakness too,
it’s a little and a lot to ask, an endless and a welcome task,
love isn’t something that we have, it’s something that we do.
There’s so much to look back on now, still it feels brand new,
we’re on a road that has no end, and each day we begin again,
love’s not just something that we’re in, it’s something that we do.
We give ourselves, we give our all,
love isn’t someplace that we fall, it’s something that we do.”
What a great truth, if you love God, you will do something – (I John 3:18).Well, if love is in the air for you today, why don’t you do something about it! And then try to do something about it, every day of the year. Love lavishly!
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