What is love?

When I hear this question I can't help smiling. In today's world it is something very twisted, and frankly many people's definition of Love is wrong. Love is Work. It requires immense actions on our part. Love is a beautiful, yet extremely misused and mistreated word.

1 Corinthians 13

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

 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. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.


(The scriptures I used I took from youversion bible. My absolute favorite! http://www.youversion.com/bible/1cor.13.niv another amazingly spectacular one is biblegateway.com. This website is great for word, topical, character, verse, or chapter studies.)


Love like God. This passage can also have God put in Love's place in each one. This passage can be applied to our lives in so many ways.  And 1 Corinthians 13 also happens to be my favorite chapter in the Bible. 

So, what is love? God.