Guardian: Do You Know What Love Is?

 

Do you know what love is
Can you feel what love is
Do you know what love
Do you know what love
Love is
Deeper than emotion
Comin' stronger than all devotion
Do you know what love
Do you know what love
Love is
Deeper than the ocean

 

Isn’t that always the question in our society today? Do you know what love is? So, do we know what love is?  The bible has already answered that question of us: 

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. ¹⁷ This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 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.

¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives [seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love], just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, ²⁶ so that He might sanctify the church, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word [of God], ²⁷ so that [in turn] He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy [set apart for God] and blameless. ²⁸ Even so husbands should and are morally obligated to love their own wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no one ever hated his own body, but [instead] he nourishes and protects and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, ³⁰ because we are members (parts) of His body. 

¹⁶ “For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] ^[a]only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life.

 

1 Cor. 13:4-7, 1 John 4:16-18, John 15:13, Eph. 5:25-30 & John 3:16 (NIV & AMP)

 

The next time you or we are asked if we know what love is, we need to pull these scriptures out of our spirit and share this same love with those who don’t know what it is.

 

Heavenly Father, continually remind us of these unconditional acts of Your love and continue to give us the guidance; and strength to always share this with those who don’t know You.

Do You Know What Love Is