I Peter 1 : 22 NKJV

I Peter 1:22 NKJV

Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

Theme-love

To end this theme week with this verse I think it's absolutely perfect. It really does a good job putting together all the aspects of love. First, " Since you have purified your souls" love has to come through Christ or it is dead. Secondly, "obey the truth" you have to stay in the truth which is the word of God to under stand what love truly is. Lastly, " love one another fervently with a pure heart"  this is the fulfillment of the law.

I believe that purifying your heart is thd first step to love. Love is a verb and that means works must be done in order for you to love. And the bible says something like good works are dead without Christ being the reason for you to be doing that work. So without God in your heart all works to show love are dead and, if he isn't the reason for you to show love then it is also dead. But if Christ is the reason for you to love then you will be blessed for the glory of God.

Obeying the truth is where you learn to love. Without the word you would know nothing about true love because,  it show what Christ did for you and shat the Father was willing to give for you and I. They represented true love, God the Father was willing to give up His Son for a bunch of sinners, imperfect people and me. Jesus Christ was obedient and willing to be wrongly accused, beaten and tortured, then hung on a cross to die for us. That is true love and without obeying the truth we would never know what true loved looked like.

"Love one another fervently with a pure heart", this is what we strive to do, fullfill the greastest commandment. When Jesus Christ died on that cross for us He fullfilled the law and gave us a command that we cannot fullfill and that is to love your neighbor as yourself. I know i will never be able to fullfill this low God has given us but I want to strive to do so for the rest of my days. Though I will never fullfill it and pay God back for what he did for me but, the least I can do is dedicate the rest of my life towards achieving that. This is my application.

Romans 13 : 10 NKJV

Romans 13:10 NKJV

Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

In the last part of verse nine it quotes "love your neighbor as yourself". And then in verse ten it says, "Love does no harm to a neighbor.." So you would never bring harm to yourself on purpose, so it makes sense not to bring harm onto others. Right? I'm not just talking about physical harm but, emotional harm as well. Like the bible says something like, if someone strikes you on the cheek turn them the other one and offer it to them. But I believe emotional harm is the one that hits me hard. I could be saying something out of fun but it could hit the heart of someone else. So what I get from this is that be careful of what you do for it may hurt someone else.

In the last part of this verse it says, "therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.". So Jesus is the only one to be able to fullfill this law because He was the perfect example of what true loved look like. The closest thing you can look at that looks like true love is, the love a mother shows her child. Why, because no matter what that child does the mother will never stop having unconditional love. I know that only through God working within me I will accomplish the fulfillment of the law. And I'll only get a better understanding of what true love is like as life goes on.
          -I heard that you will get a different look at what true love looks like when you get married and, when you have kids. Because when you get married you will see how selfish you really are. And when you have kids you learn how God sees us as his kids. But when we go through these changes in life I believe that we will only get a better understanding of what true love or agape love really looks like.

Applications- memorize this verse.

I Jonh 4 : 10 NKJV

Theme - love

"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitation for our sins."
1 John 4:10

From reading the verses before and after you'll see that God is love and if you do not know love you do not know God. God calls us to be a loving servant, and in verse 8 it says, "He who does not love does not know God, for God is love." God gave us love so why dont we love others. We are the reason God had to put His Son on the cross to die for us, and yet he loved us and still does.

What this single verse tells me is that, no matter what we do to show how we love God, it will repay what God did for us. Would you ever give up your son to help the sheep get back to the Shepard? My answer is no and I believe if your honest with yourself, yours will be the same. In this verse it says, "...not that we loved God, but that He loved us..." it's not about how we love or what we do to love but, its all how He loves and what He has done.

We must love like God loved, so if someone does me wrong in the future I won't hold them a countable because, it's not about putting yourself in an authoritative position over them and judge them on what they've done. But to represent Christ in the right way, and that is to love others like He loves us and in that way we will know Christ even more. Applications, do not say those things that might get under peoples skin and I hope all of you can help me with that.

II Corinthians 2 : 4 NKJV

II Corinthians 2:4 NKJV

Theme love

"For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you."

Love takes discipline that come from God Himself, others, and yourself. God might talk to me directly and confront me with what I'm doing, saying, or thinking wrongly about or to someone else. A friend that holds me a countable because of a goal are trying to accomplish. They can tell you what your doing wrong because they want you to accomplish that goal. Also you need to discipline yourself, and not go easy on yourself. So dont take the easy way out and stick to the path you originally shot for in the beginning.

Family, I love family and now y'all are apart my family and my brothers kept me a countable for things I promised, not just because they were usually gonna get something out of it but they also love me and want to me succeed. They also invested a lot of time and energy into helping me, so if I succeed they succeed as well.

When we complete that goal is pleases all who kept you in line God, your friend, and yourself. Like when I smoked weed I knew God was trying to keep me in line by showing He was there watching, I didn't really have a friend telling me stop because they were the ones doing it with me and the others (christian friends) didn't know. And i just kept telling myself I'll stop when I absolutely need to. So God was loving me even though I was doing something wrong, my real friends couldn't because I kept it a secret from them, and I just didn't care to recognize what I was doing was wrong. So my application for this verse is, if I have a with letting something go or quiting something I'll tell y'all about it.

1 corinthians 13 : 4-8

1 corinthians 13: 4-8

Theme- love

(4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.)

In verse four, describes what agape love is, like a mother loves her child no matter what happens, what decisions that person make, they will always find love.

In verses five and six it show that love is nothing like eros love, which is loving someone or something only because it benefits you. Eros love is not true love it's fake, so only one person benefits and love will always benefits two. The one who truly loves and the one who loves all, Jesus Christ.

Verse seven tell us what true love is. It is truth it will go through everything but in the end it will still be love.

Verse eight says that "love never fails". When there is nothing else to lean on love will always stand strong.

I know that God loves me, because love never fails. Deuteronomy 6:5, "love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength." But his people are made in His image. So how can we love Him without loving His people? A simple and only answer is, "we can't".

What I want to do to help me with loving others, which helped me in the pass is to memorize this passage. So when I'm in a situation when it gets hard to love people, I will be able to think back to this passage know how to love and know what it is. And send my brother that I learned what true love is, and im sorry for not truly loving him.