The Lord put on my heart to write a blog about marriage, specifically directed to the wife’s role in marriage. This blog is designed to highlight how to love our husbands God’s way. We can easily get discouraged, we are not perfect and we are human. This blog serves to teach and remind us what the Word of God says about what is inside our hearts as believers. We have the Greater One on the inside of us and He is greater than the one ruling the world, Satan. As believers, we have a Helper and He is the Holy Spirit. John 14:26 (Amplified) states this about the Holy Spirit:

But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you. John 14:26 AMP

Sunday, July 31, 2011

LOVE:Biblical Love

       What does the Word say about love? Most people are familiar with the “love” scriptures in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, but let’s take a closer look.  We will notice this is not the only area of the Bible that talks about love, but it helps us see what love should look like and act like.  Earlier in that same chapter in verse 1 (New King James Version) it states, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.”  So it doesn’t matter if we do everything by the “book” or everything your mother told you to do or everything “right”; without love, it will just sound like noise.  1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (Amplified Version) says:
4 Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. 5 It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].  6 It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.   7 Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. 8 Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. As for prophecy ([a]the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth].
The Amplified Version of these scriptures is my favorite because it seems to make these scriptures very clear and easy to understand. 
In the following blogs, we will discuss each element of love as described in the above verses and how to implement in your marriage.
It’s very important to note that God does not ask us to do anything we are not able to do.  He put that love in us, so we can develop it and draw it out and we can have the kind of love these scriptures are talking about!  Really!
© 2011 Michelle Serna
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