In this day & age that we live in, in these times we have a choice as to how we address people different from us. How we interact with those we may not agree with. How we approach people that we may have an issue with. We need - we must show - more love, more love, more love.
Jesus commands Love.
The Holy Spirit demands Love.
And God, at The Father's Core, epitomizes Love.
Today & in the days to come, we will reflect on single words that are mentioned multiple times in God's Word. We invite you reflect on the word, meditate on the word & for that day, week or month - to exude that Word. Breathe it, let it comfort you and keep it on your tongue, in your mind and let it permeate your heart, soul and mind.
We also invite you to go to your own Bible, read the selected scriptures for yourself. Look up other scriptures that may not be mentioned here. Delve into Our Father's Word and let His Word - His Messages of Love - engulf, carry, sustain and lift you.
Below are just a few of the Bible verses that mention Love. Out of all the Books in the NIV Bible only 2 Kings, Obadiah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Haggai and Acts of the Apostles do NOT mention the Word Love - and the Book of Psalms has the most mentions of Love - 157 times.
Lastly, always remember - God Is Love.
1 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. 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, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 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. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 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. 12 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.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Genesis 4:1 - Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”
Genesis 4:17 - Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
Genesis 4:25 - Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and
named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of
Abel, since Cain killed him.”
Genesis 20:13 - And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Genesis 22:2 - Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
Genesis 24:67 - Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Genesis 25:28 - Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis 29:17 - Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful.
Genesis 29:18 - Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, “I’ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Genesis 29:20 - So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.
Genesis 29:21 - Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.”
Genesis 29:23 - But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her.
Genesis 29:30 - Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
Genesis 29:31 - When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.
Genesis 29:32 - Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.”
Genesis 29:33 - She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Because the Lord heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon.
Genesis 34:3 - His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
Genesis 37:3 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him.
Genesis 37:4 - When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
Genesis 38:2 - There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her;
Genesis 44:20 - And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born
to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of
his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
Exodus 15:13 - In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.
Exodus 20:6 - but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Exodus 21:5 - “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’
Exodus 34:6 - And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,
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