The dictionary tells us that love is a deep, tender, strong feeling of affection toward a person; an intense emotional attachment. Love is to cherish or hold dear. I think love is also when you put another person's happiness before your own. Therefore, I believe love is sacrifice.
It's been said that love is an action not an emotion. I believe it can be both. Love is freely given without expectation. Love is not what you say, it's what you do.
According to the Bible...love is patient, it's kind. It does not envy, and it does not boast or brag. Love is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on having its own way. It's not resentful, it does not rejoice at bad behavior; instead it rejoices with truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. (I Corinithians 13:4-8 paraphrased) So these verses tell us that love is unconditional. We don't just love someone when they're in our good graces; we love them at all times. We love them as God loves us.
I John 4:19 tells us that "...He (God) first loved us". God loves us so much that He sent His only Son to die for our sins (John 3:16). God loves us unconditionally.
God is the perfect example of love because God is love.
"...God is love"
I John 4:8
I John 4:8
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