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All this week we've explored the blessings of love.
We looked at God's love through the lens of Psalm 136.
We looked at the meaning of love through the lens of the Apostle John's epistle.
We looked at how there are different words to express love (which is not a feeling.)
Yesterday we looked deeper into how love is not a feeling, but a choice of the will.
Yesterday we explored the difficult concept of loving our enemies.
In #6 we looked at how Love fulfills the Law
The number one topic of songs, they tell me, is love. The world, which does not know love, sings about it. In 1984, Foreigner sang I Want To Know What Love Is. As Wikipedia describes,
If ever there was a man of Ecclesiastes howling into the darkness of his soul for clarity on love and meaning of life, this song is it. I sang it myself as an unsaved young women who had the same yearning amid the strong sense of vanity and emptiness. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS I'd sing at the top of my lungs, and I really meant it.
In His grace, He eventually showed me. Love is Christ. God is love. There is no other love that is real, permanent, eternal, and sure as the love of God to His person of the Trinity and to us, whom He has invited into His circle through Christ. The world does not know love. They want to know what love is.
Love is explained and shown in the Bible. Read it. It is shown in answered prayer. Pray it. It's demonstrated among brethren, receive it. It fulfills the commands when you choose it.
Psalm 103 is a song of love toward our God. He is great and worthy of all our love and attention and obedience and praise.
We looked at God's love through the lens of Psalm 136.
We looked at the meaning of love through the lens of the Apostle John's epistle.
We looked at how there are different words to express love (which is not a feeling.)
Yesterday we looked deeper into how love is not a feeling, but a choice of the will.
Yesterday we explored the difficult concept of loving our enemies.
In #6 we looked at how Love fulfills the Law
The number one topic of songs, they tell me, is love. The world, which does not know love, sings about it. In 1984, Foreigner sang I Want To Know What Love Is. As Wikipedia describes,
The song hit number one in both the United Kingdom and the United States and is the group's biggest hit to date. It remains one of the band's best-known songs and most enduring radio hits... and is listed as one of Rolling Stone Magazine's greatest songs of all time.When Mick Jones of Foreigner wrote the song, he later described it as one of those things where, at 3:00 in the morning, it all suddenly came to him. He said it 'was like a higher force' just gave it to him in toto 'as a gift'. Later, he attempted to enhance the song in a spiritual way, contacting The New Jersey Mass Choir to perform another version, which also earned numerous awards and lots of radio play.
If ever there was a man of Ecclesiastes howling into the darkness of his soul for clarity on love and meaning of life, this song is it. I sang it myself as an unsaved young women who had the same yearning amid the strong sense of vanity and emptiness. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS I'd sing at the top of my lungs, and I really meant it.
In His grace, He eventually showed me. Love is Christ. God is love. There is no other love that is real, permanent, eternal, and sure as the love of God to His person of the Trinity and to us, whom He has invited into His circle through Christ. The world does not know love. They want to know what love is.
Love is explained and shown in the Bible. Read it. It is shown in answered prayer. Pray it. It's demonstrated among brethren, receive it. It fulfills the commands when you choose it.
Psalm 103 is a song of love toward our God. He is great and worthy of all our love and attention and obedience and praise.
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