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28 paź 2024 · Love Is the Greatest Commandment. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’. There is no commandment greater than these.”. – Mark 12:30-31.
The love that is born of faith and the Spirit is especially manifest in the Christian home and in the community of believers. It transforms husband-wife relationships on the pattern of Christ’s love (Ephesians 5:25, 28, 33; Colossians 3:19; Titus 2:4).
8 sie 2022 · Christian love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others, and that joy is a blood-bought joy from the death of Jesus. So, the first difference between secular love and Christian love is that our love is rooted in and is the overflow of the work of Christ and its effects in our lives.
29 paź 1996 · The Holy Spirit is God. He has the power to create love in our hearts any way he pleases. Why then does he create that love only through our conscious trust in the promises of Jesus? That is what he does. According to Galatians 5:22, “The fruit of the Holy Spirit is love.”
Love is the source and agent of healing. Love is the “how” and “why” to Truth’s unfailing “what” and “when.” A heartfelt yearning to better understand God as Love removes a feeling of abstraction about God and brings to us a grasp of Love’s boldness and unassailable spiritual power.
The Christian virtue of love is a fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22–23), and descriptions of it can be found throughout the Bible. Such love differentiates believers from all other people. However, love is not confined in the Bible to a mere expression of self-giving and self-sacrifice between one person and another. In Scripture, love is manifested in various spheres.
In the Bible, love is the essence of God’s character and the defining quality of his selfless, life-giving relationship with humanity. The biblical authors display the meaning of love through stories, poetry, and discourse.
