CONTRARY | Love (Ep 6)

Today is all about love, but not the parts of love you might expect. Our perception of love is warped and limited by our humanity, as we tend to focus on the parts of love we like: acceptance, feel-good emotions, comfort, and bliss. Love is those things, but that is only part of the picture. Love is also discipline, and obedience, and dying to yourself. To be fully loved we must acknowledge these things, and be grateful that we serve a God who loves us enough to have given us an example of perfect love through His son Jesus. 

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Scriptures Referenced:

“And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-39)

“Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:8)

“We love because he first loved us.” (1 John 4:19)

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (John 14:15)

“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)

“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” (Hebrews 12:6)

“Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:9-11)