November 23, 2020 – Food for the Soul

We say the words, I LOVE YOU, but do we really mean it? Do we know the magnitude of these words when we let them come from our mouth? Do we know how those words makes a person feel? Let us think about those words and what they mean before we say them.
Mrs. Shaunelius L. Sterns

This is a Bible Study I wanted to share with you all. I hope you will click on it to see what it is all about.

[Maximum Joy Series] Perfect Love – Bible

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Today, I am thinking about the real meaning of love from the Scriptures from the King James Version Bible. It is the first Bible that I learned to read. Let us see what the Word says about the word called”LOVE”.

First, I want to ask this question, What does the word Love mean to you? How does it make you feel? What do you think about when that word is mentioned, and who?

Now let us look at Genesis 29:20-And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

This tells me that he loved her so much that serving his uncle Laban for her for those seven years was worth it, that is how much he loved her. It did not matter how long it took for them to be together, to him it was for a short time. The years that he worked to have her made him happy, because in the end he knew that he was going to have what he worked for.

God is the same way. He will not stop loving us for one minute. It does not matter how long we stay away from Him, and it doesn’t matter how long He pursues us, He knows that one day we will come to Him. His love that He has for us draws us to Him. He is our greatest love.

Let us look at Deuteronomy 6:5-Moses tells us,”And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”

We are to love the Lord with everything that is within us, that means with all of our being. How can we not love the Lord? He laid down His life for us so that we could be free from sin and shame. He bought us with a price, and that was the shedding of His blood on the cross. He did not have to do what He did, but He did it because of the love that He had for us. It was not the nails that kept Him on the cross; it was love. We must love the Lord always. If it were not for what He did, we all would die in our sins separated from Him forever.

Let us take a look at Psalm 31:23-King David says,” O love the Lord, all ye His saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.”

He is telling us to love the Lord, becasue when we do, when we are faithful and do what we are supposed to do, He will reward us. God loves to reward His children when we are being faithful to Him. We cannot be angry towards God and expect for Him to reward us. We must love Him; He is our Father and He holds us, and every blessing in His hands. perserveth – BingHis love holds us all together when we feel like we are going to fall apart.

I have included a Bing search in the text so that you can look it up and see what it says for yourselves. You can also check out the videos that are there as well. I want everyone to have a clear understanding of what this Scripture means.

Now let us see what King Solomon is going to tell us about the Lord and Love.

Proverbs 3:12-King Solomon, the son of King David, tells us that,”For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Because we are God’s children, when we do something that we shouldn’t, He will correct us. He is our Father, and He does not want us to go on doing the wrong things that we are doing, so He will correct us when we need to be corrected. He does not do it because He wants us to suffer the punishment, He does it because it is for our own good, for our correction to teach us a lesson, and to learn from the wrong thing that was done so we will not do it again. He does it because He loves us. That is just what fathers do. If we were not corrected for our wrongs, He would not love or care about us; He would just let us keep on doing what we were doing that was wrong. Love hurts, but it hurts for the better. The pain doesn’t last forever, it just makes us love our Father in heaven even more.

Proverbs 8:17-I love them them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

The Lord does not despise our love though it be but a small and inconsiderable thing to Him, but He kindly accepts it, and will recompense it with His love and favour; and those of us that seek Him early. That is, with sincere affection, and great diligence. We should want to always seek the Lord in all things. He is the only one that can give us the direction that will lead us to where we need to be in our lives. We are to love the Lord no matter what circumstances we are in. We are not to wait until the last minute to seek Him when we are going through something that we do not understand. His love that He has for us gives us strength to face whatever we are facing in our lives from day to day.

Proverbs 12:1-The Scripture tells us that,”Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

When we learn to love the instruction of the Lord, we look to Him for knowledge and understanding, but there are those that does not want to be instructed by anyone, not even the Lord. They never come to the knowledge of love, and they will go on being ignorant. They will never know how much He loves them. God does not want to leave us in the state of mind that we are in when we have no knowledge, when we have no reproof of anything in our lives. He wants us all to have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all things, especially about who He is. Instruction and knowledge goes hand in hand, just as no knowledge and no correction. If you do not want want to have knowledge, you will always be a bruit.

Proverbs 17:17-Scripture tells us,”A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity”.

Jesus is not only our Savior, He is also our brother. He loves us at all times. His love never changes. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He went through adversity for us when He took the punishment that we deserved. He laid down His life for His friends, that is real love. Jesus was born to take the fall for us, to take the punishment for our sins, He became sin for us so that we can be free from sin. He went through all kinds of adversity for us. We would have not been able to go through the adversity that HE went through for us. We would have crumbled under the weight of the cross had we had to carry our own. He fell on the way to give up His life for us, but HE got up and continued walking while He was still being beaten along the way, although Simon of Syrene helped Him carry the cross up the hill to lay down HIS life for us. In the garden He prayed for us, He did everything for us before we were even born. He fought our enemies then, and He is still fighting our enemies for us.

Adversity – BingThis is to give you the meaning of the word adversity to help you to understand the Scripture more clearly.

This is just the first part of Where is the Love. There are more Scriptures on LOVE that we will be looking at later, so for now I just want to say that I have enjoyed the first part of this study. Please join me for part two as we continue to see what the Word says about that special four letter word called LOVE.

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