7 Good Things…You Need to Know About Love

 

7 Good Things…You Need to Know About Love

 

Love…

Bends the knee to serveSo when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?” John 13:12 (NKJV)  

Breaks the chains of bondageBut the man from whom the demons were gone out prayed him that he might be with him: but he sent him away, saying, Return to thy house, and declare how great things God hath done for thee. And he went his way, publishing throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done for him. Luke 8:38-39 (ASV)

Bears the things that can be unbearableSurely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Isaiah 53:4 (NKJV)

Blesses with all it can giveBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, Ephesians 1:3 (NKJV)

Believes in entrusting all things to GodWho when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; 1 Peter 2:23 (NKJV)

Bleeds to give its life that we might be forgivenGod showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. 1 John 4:9-10 (NLT)

In Christ, you no longer need to look for love, you only need to give it away.