Love Is...

Love is...


* Unconditional
* Forgiving
* Compassionate
* Faithfulness


Growing up I remember reading the comic strips in the Chicago Tribune newspaper about a set of characters, a male and a female who would display their affections of love in many different ways.
the comic strip would always start off with the words Love Is... on the left hand corner then a pic of the characters that were sometimes featured as a couple, husband and wife or a family.
underneath the characters, words like these would be written
for example
Love is...
Being a good neighbor
Sitting up all night with a sick child
Being able to say you're sorry
This concept came from a woman who would draw these little love notes for her future husband.
these were meaningful words, and displays of affection



Love is a very powerful Word an Emotion and an Action. It can even make us go to the extremes in order to fulfil or conquer our desires.


In the scriptures in Gen. 29:18
Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, "I'll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel."


Jacob went to the extremes to conquer his true love Rachel
First he worked for Rachel's father Laban for 7 years, then he got tricked into marrying Leah the other daughter
He was so in love with Rachel that he worked seven more years in order to marry her.


Love is Patient... (1 Cor 13:4)


Love can Transform You


Let's look at Saul a persecutor of the Jews. He has this experience with God on the road to Damascus gets blinded and realizes the truth.
He becomes Paul and a true ambassador of Jesus Christ.


Love does not delight in Evil but rejoices with the truth (1 Cor 13:6)


I am sure many of us experienced Love in many ways and have done things for love


But in Humans, Love is not perfect, there are disagreements, set backs, hurt and sometimes betrayal


but if we exercise the true meaning of love like in 1 Corinthians 13:4
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Then we can truly know how to love without strings attached


1 John 3: 18
18Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
19This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence
20whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.



God is Love, He is the originator of Love. not Venus or St. Valentines


He truly embodies love that is unconditional, forgiving, compassionate and faithful


so unconditional that he demonstrated that love for all of us by going to the extremes and sending his only son Jesus Christ to die for our sins at the cross


Jesus knows what true love is too
He obeyed his father
He wasn't selfish he did it to save others although he was the one receiving the pain, the torture and the betrayal
He did it for us to have a better life one that can lead to blessings and victory and triumph, spiritually, physically and emotionally
although we may fail him he still loves us


but do we love him in return? Are we grateful and repented?
or are we being selfish and not willing to exercise true love?


examine your heart is it proud? so proud that you wont allow Jesus into your heart because you think there is another force you rather believe in that is the right one?
or because your way is the best way ,
is it rude that it just rejects the thought of having a relationship with Him so you ignore or shut him out?
Is it angry? because you once believed then something bad happened and you blamed him for it


Examine your heart



Love is gentile He will knock, not barge in at the door of your heart to see if you let him in


the choice is up to you...


If anyone here wants to display their affection to Jesus by writing him a love note
this is the time