Monthly Archives: February 2024

We’ve come to the end of February. We’ve spent this month delving into the true nature of God’s love and how His love should teach us to love. We’ve explored the traits of godly love. And, examined who God expects us to love. Ultimately, trying to live a life that is first and foremost ledContinue reading “Godly Love”

If we say we love God then we must love Him AND His laws! We cannot say we love God but not love His law. God’s law must pervade our thoughts, hearts, and actions. We must think and meditate on God’s law always. Why? ❤️ God is God. His law should be followed because HeContinue reading “Godly love loves God’s laws!”

We are nearing the end of our study over Godly love. However, everything we’ve discussed (love characteristics and love actions) none of them matter if we don’t love the source of love – God. We can say we are a godly person or a Christian all we want but if we don’t actually love GodContinue reading “Godly love…love God!”

If we are to have godly love then our love must prioritize God over wealth or earthly success. It is so easy to get caught up in the rat race of this world. Constantly working for more money, accolades, perks, promotions, etc. All those things give us more attention and more money. We bask inContinue reading “Godly love Prioritizes!”

Loving those that love us is much easier than love strangers and exponentially easier than loving an enemy. But, as followers of Christ we are commanded to love those that do us harm and hate us. Jesus commands us to pray for those that abuse us. Why? Because that is how God loves us. “…butContinue reading “Godly love loves its enemies!”

So, many times when we hear lessons or even when people talk about what the Bible says about marriage Ephesians 5 becomes one of the focal points. We often get too narrow focused on verse 22 “wives submit to your husbands.” We spend so much time defining and discussing it and by the time weContinue reading “Godly love…loves its spouses!”

Genuine means to ACTUALLY have the reputed qualities or character. It is sincere and honest. It is real and actual and true. It is free from hypocrisy or pretense. Our love should be genuine. It should demonstrate the qualities we say we have and claim to live by. It is honest and sincere with others.Continue reading “Godly Love is…Genuine!”

The phrase speaking truth to power is all the rage right now. But it’s actually an ancient phrase – originating all the way back with the Greeks. Their word for the idea was “parrhesia” which meant you not only need to speak the truth and speak it freely but also you were obligated to speakContinue reading “Godly Love…Speaks Truth!”

Earnest isn’t a word we use much anymore. But it is a great word. So what does it mean to be earnest? Earnest is characterized by an intense and serious state of mind. It is grave and important. It means to have a considerable or impressive amount or degree. So, Peter tells us we shouldContinue reading “Godly Love is…Earnest!”

We are all friends to someone and most of us have siblings (for those who don’t you may be close to a cousin or incredibly close to a friend). We all have friends we consider siblings – we love them like a brother or sister. Our love for those individuals needs to be consistent throughContinue reading “Godly love is…consistent!”