What is Love?

What is Love?

The lyrics of a song, “What do you get when you fall in love? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia, that’s what you get for all your trouble, I’ll never fall in love again.”

The trouble is that is human love and it wanes and fails all the time. What love is, is GOD!

GOD is perfect and GOD is love so GOD is perfect love, study 1 Corinthians 13 that is a good definition of GOD, just replace the word love with the name GOD.

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but have not GOD, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And thought I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains but have not GOD, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my good to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned but have not GOD, it profits me nothing. GOD suffers long and is kind, GOD does not envy, GOD does not parade Himself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek His own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the Truth; bears all things, believes all things, endures all things. GOD never fails. But whether there are prophecies they will fail; whether there are tongues they will cease; whether there is knowledge it will vanishing away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly but then face to face. Now I know in part but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, GOD, these three; but the greatest of these is GOD.” NKJV

“I may speak in the tongues of men, even angels; but if I lack GOD I have become merely blaring brass or a cymbal clanging. I may have the gift of prophecy, I may fathom all mysteries, know all things, have all faith – enough to move mountains; but if I lack GOD I am nothing. I may give away everything I own, I may even hand over my body to be burned; but if I lack GOD I am nothing. GOD is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful, not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered, and He keeps no record of wrongs. GOD does not gloat over other people’s sins but takes its delight in the Truth. GOD always bears up, always trust, always hopes, always endures. GOD never ends; but prophecies will pass, tongues will cease, knowledge will pass. For our knowledge is partial, and our prophecy is partial; but when perfect comes the partial will pass. When I was a child I spoke like a child, thought like a child, argued like a child; now that I have become a man, I have finished with childish ways. For we see obscurely in a mirror, but then it will be face to face. Now I know partly; then I will know fully, just as GOD has fully known me. But for now three things last – trust, hope, GOD; and the greatest of these is GOD. CJB