A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The Bible has so much to teach us as we grow up in this life. We grow up to love one another and to cherish each moment that we have, not to hate or to despise one another. This life is so short, please don't make it any shorter by not being there for your loved ones.
So here are a few notes from God to you about love.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 NIV
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It does not dishonor 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.8 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.
In this note, God wants us to know the value of love. And how important that love is in this world that we live in. Without love in the world, where would we be?
1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Love is the most powerful thing we possess here on this earth. We are taught growing up to love one another and to be there for each other. We are not meant to destroy nor are we meant to break each other apart.
1 John 4:7-12
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
In this note, God wants us to love one another because God first loved us. When I read this scripture, I think of a little child because they can love and give love. This is the love that God wants us to give to others all around us. No matter how busy our lives may be. We're never too busy to love each other.