God is love. Well, that’s easy to remember, but to be intentional about how to love is a whole nother subject. Let’s look at some bible verses about love so both you and I can learn.
Let all that you do be done in love. - 1 Corinthians 16:14
Okay so we never want to despise someone or attribute thoughts to them that they are not thinking. We do not know what someone is thinking or really there intentions, we have to focus on how WE or you are loving. I have heard Lisa Turkhersh, a best-selling author say that we cannot think someone is trying to harm us before we even really meet them. I saw a video on TV the other day and it spoke to me how sometimes people think other people are out to get them before they have even talked to that person. We need to not attribute harm to someone else, and give new people and old people in our lives a chance by showing them love. More Below….
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. - Proverbs 10:12
So this verse goes into how we show love. Simply by not hating others. Jesus says to even love our enemies. When Jesus was on the cross, He asked God the Father to forgive the people who put him on the cross because they did not know what they are doing. God said elsewhere that His people perish for a lack of knowledge. This means in 2020, there is literally know excuse for us to not study as much as we can even if we are not in a college, because there are so many people who are sharing knowledge over the internet, Youtube and more. Hatred means doing harm to anybody in your life. God is the one who punishes people. We cannot take this role ourselves. If God wanted Jesus to be crucified on the cross, we should have let The Father do it himself, no disrespect to God, but we should never be in a position to harm others. Let pestilence, earthquake, or some act of God happen but it should not be by our hand.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8