LOVE
Published on Feb 11, 2021
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LOVE
Paul, George, John, and Ringo
All you need is love
Can't buy me Love
And I Love her
Love you to
Love me Do
All my loving
You've got to hide your love away
PS I Love you
Word of Love
Its only Love
She Loves you
All you need is love
Can't buy me Love
And I Love her
Love you to
Love me Do
All my loving
You've got to hide your love away
PS I Love you
Word of Love
Its only Love
She Loves you
Photo by beatles maniac11
What is it?
36 Definitions Of Love, According To Urban Dictionary.....
1. Love is when your dog licks your face when you come home, even though you’ve left them alone all day.
2. To give everything you have…and not expect anything in return.
3. That awkward feeling in what feels like your stomach (affects how you feel and think) which causes you to do/say really stupid things.
4. When you care for someone so much, you put their needs ahead of your own, even if sometimes it really hurts.
The brain pickings....
5. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
1. Love is when your dog licks your face when you come home, even though you’ve left them alone all day.
2. To give everything you have…and not expect anything in return.
3. That awkward feeling in what feels like your stomach (affects how you feel and think) which causes you to do/say really stupid things.
4. When you care for someone so much, you put their needs ahead of your own, even if sometimes it really hurts.
The brain pickings....
5. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Photo by Jesse Goll
1 Corinthians 13
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If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Without Love
13:1-3
Nothing...
Gong or claning cymbal - word used to describe the big metal thing they hit in pagan temple worship - which appears to be quite impressive summoning the attention of the gods.......when in reality there is nothing there but a connection to the demonic or some artists imagination in the form of an idol
and without love I am a nobody, a no one - which is just the opposite of what the person operating outside of God is hoping to achieve - the appearance of accomplishment or importance
Without love - I gain nothing, I have nothing to show for all of my efforts, no reach, no influence, no profit, no advantage
Even though it looks like I can connect with and talk like heavenly beings
Even though I have access to "insider" information - which only "important" people have by the way.....
Even though I build my life on looking like this amazing philanthropist, spending millions in ways that appears to be costing me dearly.....
and have not love......
I have nothing.....
except....
Trash Can
an empty one.....
gong - something hollowed out made of metal or brass, designed to make noise when it is struck.....
tinkling cymbal - a battle cry designed to eleicit fear or intimidation, describing mourners wailing at a funeral,
You can make lots of noise and all you do is leave behind a big mess.......
tinkling cymbal - a battle cry designed to eleicit fear or intimidation, describing mourners wailing at a funeral,
You can make lots of noise and all you do is leave behind a big mess.......
Photo by Toronto History
Love Is...
A word that is used in the New Testament 115 different times....
9 times in these 13 verses we are focusing on today....
9 times in these 13 verses we are focusing on today....
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to be so moved with compassion for someone that you are compelled to act on their behalf, often at great cost to yourself
Love is...
- Patient
- Longsuffering
- Slow to boil
- Kind
- Uselful
- Opposite of harsh or bitter
patient - longsuffering, forebearing, persevering
holding out under trial
a long protracted restraint of the soul from yielding to passion, especially the passion of anger
rather than exploding, you come to a boil slowly
Kind - useful, good, helpful in shouldering a burden, opposite of harsh or bitter
Used to describe the yoke that Jesus invites us to put on - His yoke is easy - its a good fit and actually helps.....Matt 11:30
holding out under trial
a long protracted restraint of the soul from yielding to passion, especially the passion of anger
rather than exploding, you come to a boil slowly
Kind - useful, good, helpful in shouldering a burden, opposite of harsh or bitter
Used to describe the yoke that Jesus invites us to put on - His yoke is easy - its a good fit and actually helps.....Matt 11:30
Love is NOT
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Love is NOT
- Jealous
- Boastful
- Proud
- Rude
- Demanding
- Irritable
- List keeper
- happy when evil "wins"
jealous - zealously desire or passionatel covet someone's attention over another or belongings
boastful - to promote yourself with flair or drama
proud - inflate yourself for the sake of self promotion
rude - behave dishonorably, violate social norms of behaving
demanding - to put ones own agenda or interest first
irritable - not touchy, easily offended, or "triggered"
list keeper - harbor a sense of injury on the part of another, brood over some past hurt for the purpose of using it to an advantage in some way
boastful - to promote yourself with flair or drama
proud - inflate yourself for the sake of self promotion
rude - behave dishonorably, violate social norms of behaving
demanding - to put ones own agenda or interest first
irritable - not touchy, easily offended, or "triggered"
list keeper - harbor a sense of injury on the part of another, brood over some past hurt for the purpose of using it to an advantage in some way
Love Leads to
Photo by Nick Fewings
Love Leads to...
- Rejoicing
- Protecting
- Trusting
- Hoping
- Persevering
Rejoicing in the truth
Protecting - safeguarding especially when someone is having difficulty, or unusually vulnerable
Trusting - word for faith, belief in God
Hoping - assurance, sense of settled certainty
Persevering - upomenw - to remain under an obligation or burden instead of running away, its the decision to keep putting one foot in front of the other
Protecting - safeguarding especially when someone is having difficulty, or unusually vulnerable
Trusting - word for faith, belief in God
Hoping - assurance, sense of settled certainty
Persevering - upomenw - to remain under an obligation or burden instead of running away, its the decision to keep putting one foot in front of the other
Love Never Fails
but.....these will....13:8-12
Love -
never - at no time in the past, present or future
will love be successfully pushed out of the way or knicked to the ground
never - at no time in the past, present or future
will love be successfully pushed out of the way or knicked to the ground
Photo by Heidi Kaden
DONE and GONE!!
- Cease
- Still
- Pass away
- Disappear
- Put away
- Have clarity
- Have big picture
8 Love never fails - will never be pushed aside by some other force or fall over on its own
But where there are prophecies, they will cease - inactive, inoperative, no longer useful
where there are tongues, they will be stilled - to come to an end, be be no longer
where there is knowledge, it will pass away - same word used to describe what happens to prophecy
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears - again same word as cease or pass away
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me - these things will be placed in a position having no influence or impact....put it behind me - to put an end to an activity....
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face - its darkened -
(Illus. when we had a woodstove sometimes we got some wood that had extra sap, or we ran the stove with little air flow, and the glass would fog up or get all smokey .......so you couldn't see through it clearly....
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known - I will have the big picture, full picture
Have clarity
Have big picture
which is.......
But where there are prophecies, they will cease - inactive, inoperative, no longer useful
where there are tongues, they will be stilled - to come to an end, be be no longer
where there is knowledge, it will pass away - same word used to describe what happens to prophecy
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears - again same word as cease or pass away
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me - these things will be placed in a position having no influence or impact....put it behind me - to put an end to an activity....
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face - its darkened -
(Illus. when we had a woodstove sometimes we got some wood that had extra sap, or we ran the stove with little air flow, and the glass would fog up or get all smokey .......so you couldn't see through it clearly....
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known - I will have the big picture, full picture
Have clarity
Have big picture
which is.......
Faith, Hope, Love
continue
comparative
Faith
Hope
Love will be here in the end
But the greatest of these is LOVE
Faith
Hope
Love will be here in the end
But the greatest of these is LOVE
Photo by @Doug88888
Anything Become Greater?
- A mess to clean up?
- A list to tear up?
- A gift or ability?
36 Definitions Of Love, According To Urban Dictionary.....
1. Love is when your dog licks your face when you come home, even though you’ve left them alone all day.
2. To give everything you have…and not expect anything in return.
3. That awkward feeling in what feels like your stomach (affects how you feel and think) which causes you to do/say really stupid things.
4. When you care for someone so much, you put their needs ahead of your own, even if sometimes it really hurts.
The brain pickings....
5. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
1. Love is when your dog licks your face when you come home, even though you’ve left them alone all day.
2. To give everything you have…and not expect anything in return.
3. That awkward feeling in what feels like your stomach (affects how you feel and think) which causes you to do/say really stupid things.
4. When you care for someone so much, you put their needs ahead of your own, even if sometimes it really hurts.
The brain pickings....
5. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Photo by Jesse Goll
