This will not be a long blog, however I will have many verses to share on this topic. So, sit back and enjoy the read from this blog.
My wife in these last few days has taught me that love is more than being emotional it’s being purposeful.
However, before I go to what we spoke on and how it impacted me I will first share some verse to show you how God’s word says this is how we are to be when it comes to love.
These verses I will share speak to how we should show love to one another. My wife and I don’t agree on this, but I believe the way they did it in the olden days was better than how people seek out for love today.
In the olden day the father would pick out their daughter’s husband, it based on an understanding of the two family for most part to grow the family in mutual beliefs or to better the families’ futures. These were called arranged marriages.
Today’s society believe in the emotions of the relationship; however, God tells us in so many verses that our emotions or feelings will lead us astray and we should not trust it. God fines this to be so important that He tell us this more than once.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
So, in reading God’s words I founded the truth on love, and I know many will not see it as so but permit me to show you through God’s words and yet Him be the arbiter of the truth.
We have to learn the terms of engagement and become doers of the terms and learn to stick to them. These are terms that was given to us by God and the recipe to a good relationship between a man and a woman. God in His words say husband love 💗 your wife as I have loved the church and wife respect your man for it is the form of love that man understands. (Verse is highlighted in yellow)
See we are different in so many ways and that is why God tells us that the two shall become one as if they are one flesh. These are the components needed to raise a family. God’s design is not a mistake like the world 🌍 would have you believe it is perfect.
Everything that God has put in place has been manipulated to be used in a different way, and this is done on purpose by the enemy, Satan.
I am providing all these verses to show that this is not me but the Lord who speaks of these things and is call us to follow these ways. I these verses God is telling us that we should always look to Him in all of our ways so that we are not deceived from these evil days.
Just to add a little content to today. People today say they feel like something that they are not, is the same issue that love will have if it’s laid in emotions or feelings it will fade.
There are other articles on this but this one was short and sweet, so I chose to use it. This will give you a clear understanding on why emotional base marriages are bounded for 40 to 50% failure.
Please feel free to look into this yourself because I believe it will bring you to a closer walk with our Lord Jesus Christ. When you see how He loved us it brings a different perspective to the word love.
Ephesians 5:25-33: Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.
Malachi 2:14-15: But you say, 'Why does he not?' Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
Proverbs 3:3-4: Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
Romans 12:10: Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
Genesis 2:18–25: Then the LORD God said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.' ... So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
Isaiah 54:5: For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
Proverbs 30:18-19: There are three things that amaze me—no, four things that I don't understand: how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman.
Ruth 1:16-17: Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.
1 John 4:12: No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
Hebrews 10:24-25: And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
1 Peter 4:8: Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Ephesians 4:32: Be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.
1 Peter 3:7: In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.
Ecclesiastes 4:9: Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?
Ephesians 4:2-3: With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Song of Solomon 8:6-7: Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.
Genesis 1:27-28: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
Ephesians 5:25: For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her.
Ecclesiastes 4:12: Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Genesis 2:24: Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Romans 13:8: Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5: 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.
Song of Solomon 8:7: Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
1 Corinthians 13:2: 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.
Psalm 143:8: Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.
1 John 4:16: And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
Song of Solomon 4:9: You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
Ephesians 5:33: However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Proverbs 18:22: He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 5:11: Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
Matthew 19:4-6: "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."
Proverbs 10:12: Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Song of Solomon 2:16: I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine.
Song of Solomon 3:4: I have found the one whom my soul loves.
John 15:12: My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
Corinthians 16:14: Do everything in love.
1 Peter 4:8: Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
Ephesians 5:21: Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
1 John 4:8: Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Corinthians 13:13: And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Romans 12:9: Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
Colossians 3:14: And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Luke 6:31: Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Mark 10:9: Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.
Proverbs 31:10: Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 17:17: A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Ephesians 4:2: Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Jude 1:2: Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.
1 John 4: 7: Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
There is no verse here that is based on emotions, these are purposeful acts of true love. I hope you read the article that I provided above. The article speaks about love at first sight this is the emotional aspect of love and in most part is not sustainable. However, he explains that this is short lived and will fade, what will you do then when it’s based on emotions or feelings.
Every verse here is purposeful just like the act Jesus did for us on the cross. God never done anything randomly all of God’s acts are purposeful. Consequently, this speaks volumes on how we should act as well. If the creator of all that we know has come to earth and put on flesh live and died it because it was purposeful. There is no act greater, it is said if you have this or if you have that all these things are worthless without love. So, if God comes to us, lived, loved and died that is telling us that this is the only way to the Father don’t you think that He would expect for us to do the same, I say yes.
And when you look 👀 at the logic behind this form of love ❤️ it makes so much more sense. See God never forces anyone to do something he or she doesn’t want to do. It has always been and will be our choice, so it either going to be God or this world, 🌍 or better put Satan. There are only two choices don’t let this world have you believing that there are many ways because it’s a lie from the enemy.
See when you make a decision from the very beginning of your walk with Christ you had to make a choice. However, some make a decision before knowing all understand the whole truth. I believe that most of us started our walk with Christ unaware of the cost but after a deeper understanding we understood and choose. This in a nutshell is how we need to approach love in our live.
Now I am not saying you cannot have love at first sight, because you can, but I will bet that in some of those relationship they had to make a choice to stay together.
There are many emotions and feelings when it comes to love and that is why our Lord wants us to understand who we are in Him first so that we are not led by emotions but in a true union.
I will leave you with this warning because I was there once and know how tempting it is to self-love. God is clear on this we are to put others before ourselves. It is the world that speaks of love oneself first. However, this is not biblical and goes against the created order of the most-High God. God in one of the above verses I highlighted blue where God tell us to love our wives as we love ourselves because one never hates once self but loves himself. There many be time it seems one sided and that is because it is from the enemy. However, when you see some one-sided love and it start to elevate know that. Its’ the enemy who sees this. Do not fall prey to that deception because it is very tempting and will lead to destruction. Man, however, wait till you hear this satanic lady talk about self-love as if it is of God. But it is not it is of the devil; this lady is demonically posse by a demon. These are the things of the world and not Christ.
I will add a link that will help you see it better.
I hope this reaches the ones that need to hear these words, and as always, I hope this blesses all who passes through my blog.
God bless you all.
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