If "God is love", What is Love?

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I wanted to pose the question “What is love?”
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Love is self-sacrifice; a giving of one’s self, for the good of another. Thus Jesus said “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
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ricmat said:
You long for their love in return. You want their company. You want to show your love to them. You wish to make them happy. You wish to know them, and to understand them. You wish for them to know you, and to understand you. You care, and will do anything for them. You will expect little in return.
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Respectfully toward>> opinion only. Nicely said ricmat !! 🙂 Peace
 
Edwyn said:
I have a feeling people think of “love” as something they have to do to others
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Respectfully, opinion only, pondering on. What has our Loving Heavenly Father done for you? for others? or for all?

Our Loving Heavenly Father has taught us and shown us, that pure Holy Love>>>>> is not just lip service is it with our Loving Father?

Our Heavenly Father being the fullness of Love>>is Love in action, is he not?

Respectfully opinion.

Other wise, Our Heavenly Father, who is the fullness of Love>> could of simply
Stayed home (within His Kingdom, His Heavenly realm) where the fullness of Love, Righteousness, Joy, Peace and harmony exist?
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Our Heavenly Father wants us to share equally with all that He shares in and to experience for ourselves, the Joy, the Good Pleasures that>> Love brings to us and to experience for ourselves what Love is, when it is given and shared with others?

How could we come to know what Love is?
until we experience the lack of being Loved, also?

We do not know what hunger pain feels like, until we experience the pains of hunger for ourselves?

We do not know what compassion is, until we have experienced the lack of compassion not given to us, also?

To hear only that God is Love and Love is God, yet not knowing what Love is, what good fruit could that bring to others or even to oneself?

We first have to experience the lack of not being Loved, to know how to give Love to others?

Our Heavenly Father is Love and wants us to experience for ourselves to know what Love is?
How can one return that Love, if we know not what Love is?

Jesus tells us does he not I do not want to leave you ignorant?

1 John 4:8 No one who does not love, does not know God for God is love.

Peace 🙂
 
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rose321 said:
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Jesus defined one who loves Him, with a conditional statement. It begins with “IF”. Obviously that means do everything He tells us to do.
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Respectfully opinion only. Agree there is an IF and lots of IF’s within His Spoken Word, is this not true?

Lets ask Our Heavenly Father, to define what the true meaning of>> What Love is? Within His Spoken Word, Wisdom given for all to hear?

Matthew Chapter 5 begins with >> The Beatitudes << Blessed are…?.Love, Truth, Faithful devotion, Merciful, stand up for righteousness, True Love is Love in action?

Jesus his love, was love in action, was it not?

Matthew 5:44 > But I say to you love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…

Matthew 5: 43 > You have heard that it was said, "you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…

Matthew 5:45> that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes the sun rise on the bad and the good and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.

Matthew 5 :46 -48 For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.

A lot of >>if>> within this and else where, within His Spoken Word, is there not?

1 Corinthians 1-13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is not envious or boastful or arrogance or rude. It does not insist on its own way…

1 John 4:7 Beloved let us love one another for love is from God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

And Knows>> our Heavenly Father?
But you do not ask me, seek me, nor knock at my door.

There is a lot more bible verses on what Love is, what Love means, is defined within His Spoken Word, is it not?

Who better to ask, then our Heavenly Father, fullness of Love Himself > What is Love and Loves true meaning?

True Love is Love in action?

Easy to love your own, our Heavenly Father telling us>> even those who are unrighteous Love their own?

Peace 🙂
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As Jesus pointed out, in that conditional statement He made

Love is action NOT just words or fuzzy sentiment.
 
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The quote you referenced was written by me. Not by ricmat. Peace.
 
I may have been not clear with what I was trying to say. When I wrote “I have a feeling people think of “love” as something they have to do to others” I meant that some people think of Christian love as something you do out of pure “will”, as something you do 100% of your effort. Yes you have to use your will but also you have to rely very much on the love of God Himself, i.e. His grace.
 
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