The Recipe for Love - Christmas Special
The Recipe for Love - Christmas Special
“This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. Cusseta homes Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:12-13) KJV
God is love. It is so important to Jesus that when He was asked to identify the greatest commandment, He said it was to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength (Mark 12:30 & Matthew 22:37-40).
Through the eye of love, Jesus willingly embraced the Cross. He died for us all while we were still sinners – He willingly lay down His life for mankind. Jesus’ teaching promotes love and mercy. We see an example of His teaching from the parable of the lost son, подбор прически онлайн popularly known as ‘The Prodigal Son’. After squandering his inheritance, the wayward son came to his senses and returned home. The father showed us an example of walking in love by embracing his son as he allowed the out flowing of the divine love that had been shed abroad in his heart (Luke 15:20). The forgiving love of the father symbolizes the divine mercy of God.
Love is the heart of Jesus’ teaching. He teaches us to follow His example by being kind to the ungrateful and to those with evil intent. In Luke 6:35-36, Jesus instructs us to love our enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back.
What is Love?
The word is so popular that little boys and girls learn it before they hit their first birthday! Young girls crave to hear the words “I love you” and sometimes lose any sense of reasoning upon hearing these blessed words from their male admirers. нокиа5310 It would appear that some adults cannot do without it. At times, we call it ‘love affair’ – that is a romantic or sexual relationship between зачатие ребенка видео two people who are not married to each other. Out of such liaison may come a ‘love child’ - a person whose parents have not been married to each other. We even talk about love bite – a temporary mark left on a person’s skin by a partner during love making.
Collins Concise Dictionary & Thesaurus define love as ‘To have a great affection for a person or thing, to have a passionate desire for someone or an intense emotion of affection toward a person.
When we say “I love you” – It can take on different meanings depending on the context it is used and to whom it is directed. At times it would appear that we use the ‘word’ without knowing its meaning. In Matthew 22:37-40, Jesus admonishes us to love God with all our heart, soul and mind; and to love our neighbour as ourselves. That tells me that love requires real commitment that is not artificial but sacrificial and comes straight from our heart.
Biblical definition of ‘love’ can be divided into four categories.
1. Storge – This describes affection between member members of a family, for example between parent and children. In fact, parental love is
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