A Love Letter

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A Love Letter!

The Bible has a lot to say about love. The word "love" is mentioned over 500 times.

New Living Translation (NLT): 645 times.

New International Version (NIV): 574 times.

English Standard Version (ESV): 551 times.

Many verses speak to love's power, importance, and beauty. First and foremost "God so Loved the World, that he gave his only son" as a sacrifice, so we can have a relationship with the Father.

There are three kinds of Love I want to mention here:

Agape love is a different kind, considered a type of everlasting love in which you care for another person without expecting reciprocation, even in hard times. Mothers might be pushed right into this category, closer to understanding what it means to break your own body to give life to a baby. I was contemplating this, God gave up his son for me....It is a grand gesture to ask a parent to do, not alone do it willingly.

Eros love is your Valentine's kind of cheezy, Romantic love, one of the eight types of love according to ancient Greek philosophy, represents passionate, romantic love. (rose petals, chocolate, strawberry etc.)

Philia love accounts for the type of love that you feel for parents, siblings, family members, and close friends. For Plato, philia epitomized the powerful emotional bond that does not depend on physical attraction or romantic attraction.

Just because it is heart day today (or a simple Friday) and some of us want to run and hide under a rock or maybe declare Love to someone, whether you actively pursuing the topic of Love or happily ignoring it, here are many kinds of ways to express Love today and every day.

Let these verses serve as a bucket of roses and inspire the way you Love the people around you.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that you do be done in love.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Colossians 3:14

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

1 Corinthians 13:13

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 4:7-8

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 Peter 4:8

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 4:2

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

John 14:15

If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Happy Love Day! If no one told you today, I Love you and God Loves you even more!

And if you felt that this message blessed you share it with a friend! Someone might need it!

I am curious about your Victorius testimony, or the mountains you are facing, maybe that is all you see now... but be assured that on the other side is the Valley of Peace. If you feel encouraged hit reply and share it with me, I would love to encourage victory over your challenge.

Until next time stay Blessed and pray and contemplate on Love

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

Corinthians 13:4