Love is patient, love is kind, and the love necessary to live in a peaceful habitation is not self-seeking, easily angered, or rebellious.
Anger is always a negative pull that instigates rebellion and leads us into the realm of selfishness, I didn’t get my way, you don’t listen to me, I want all the control of people and situations.
As we seek to satisfy our feelings we are not even remotely in the realm of love, because love is not a feeling. Sacrificial love has transforming power and is volitional rather than emotional. We love because we made a decision to love. Amen!
The Bible tells us to love with our entire being; heart, soul, and mind, and we attain this love by our inherent spiritual attributes gained by yielding ourselves to the inner Spirit of God that dwells in all who choose to believe in His Son Jesus. Amen!
Patience and kindness are some of the attributes that show us that God is God, and when we search inside ourselves we too have a better understanding of the power of love and how it produces acts of kindness.
As patience has its perfect work in you the power of serenity produces a calmness that is necessary to act on and endure in love.
A life of love is also filled with thoughtfulness, which is the consideration for the needs of other people. Then benevolence is found in your acts of kindness and goodness and leads to the good of God being shown out of a willing heart.
When your heart is full of good you are now operating in the love that was shed abroad in your heart through the Holy Spirit. This transformative experience gives us a newfound love for God and His people and completes the never-ending cycle of divine-human reciprocity, which is a mutual dependence on one another.
This mutual dependency would lead us away from judgment and more in line with fulfilling needs. Leniency can exert a soothing influence over every thought and spoken word and lead to a situational value of life.
Good thoughts and kind words omit any wrong that has been done and set us on the path to the love of God that was initially set forth by way of charity.
Charity is thought to be the highest form of love and is actually where we derive the word, love, that we use in modern vernacular. Charity is the reciprocal love between God and man that is manifested when we have unselfish love for one another.
Here is a quote that gives some understanding; “Charity is a virtue which, when our affections are perfectly ordered, unites us to God, for by it we love Him”!
Charity is at the root of every other virtue that has related God to man, and man to man. (Man here, being male or female).
So to have a life of love we must have the desire to remove the burdens people are carrying and help all of those around us move into a benevolent state, and then all of us reaching to those in our communities, states, and countries to bring love to center stage.
We reach the whole by loving those around us unconditionally and then expecting that the love will speak with a new tone, you see our God has a tone and love causes that tone to have some notes and when we sing out or speak out these heartfelt notes, love abounds. Amen!
We must, however, face the fact, I repeat, “we must face the fact” that we don’t naturally have this kind of love in us, we must gain this love from following God’s word and following God’s example of love, His giving us His only Son Jesus, you see giving of oneself is the greatest act of love.
By the love that is in Jesus, we can live this never-failing love life, and have all our relationships transformed into mutual affection, one for another.
We can love even the so-called unlovable, and as we do, things will change because if our love is rejected we just come back with more love. We remain full of faith, abounding in hope, and as we think more charitably, our love never fails. Amen!
Unfailing love removes all self-seeking, all malice, and all the desires to spitefully use others for our gain. As we practice living the life of love, we lead with love again and again and come to a place where we are proficient in love.
Our proficiency advances us into the main principles practiced in the Kingdom of God, and that should be our heart’s desire.
Living a life of love, we know the Way! Jesus truly is our Way Maker! Amen!
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Scriptures of encouragement and content: 1 Corinthians 13, Matthew 22:37, John 6:29, Acts 16:31, Romans 5:5, John 14:6, and 1 Peter 1:22 TPT, “Now, because of your obedience to the truth, you have purified your very souls, and this empowers you to be full of love for your fellow believers. So express this sincere love toward one another passionately and with a pure heart”. Amen! So be it!