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Sep 16.97: Light For The Day - "True Love"
Love of God makes all things enjoyable. - Anon.
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay;
Love isn't love until you give it away. - Anon.
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"Love never fails. ...." - 1Corinthians 13:8 (NIV)
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Source book: "Day by Day with Billy Braham"
The first essential for a happy Christian home is
that love must I be practiced. Homes that are built
on human attraction and lust are destined to crumble
and fall. Love is the cohesive force that holds the
family together. True love contains an element of
spiritual mystery. It embodies loyalty, reverence,
and understanding.
Love imposes a tremendous responsibility on all
members of a family, but it is a responsibility
accompanied by glorious rewards. "Love," says the
Bible, "even as Christ . loved the church, and gave
Himself for it." How did Christ love the church?
He loved it despite its faults, its mistakes, and its
weaknesses.
True love does not fail. It loves despite personality
defects, physical blemishes, and mental quirks.
Love is deep, abiding, and eternal. Nothing can bring
a sense of security into the home as true love can.
Prayer For The Day:
Help me today, to listen, to love and care for my loved
ones with a heart that is made sensitive by You, Jesus.
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"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with all your mind. ....
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. "
- Matthew 22:37-39 (NKJV)
"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own
way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at
wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away;
as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will
pass away." - 1Corinthians 13:4-8
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We love in another's soul
whatever of ourselves
we can deposit in it;
the greater the deposit,
the greater the love.
- Irving Layton
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
- Erich Fromm
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