Circles Of Love!
"You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any
grudge against the children of your people,
but you shall love your neighbor as yourself:
I am the Lord."
Leviticus 19: 18
If you went through the Bible and drew a
circle around every occurrence of the word
love, you’d have more than 500 circles.
It first appears in Genesis 22:2 to describe
Abraham’s love for his son Isaac. You will
have 25 circles in the book of Deuteronomy,
44 in Psalms, and 57 in John’s Gospel.
One chapter in the Bible is called the Love Chapter
(1 Corinthians 13), and the last reference to love
in
the Bible is Revelation 22, although there the word
is used in a negative sense, to condemn anyone
who “loves and practices a lie” (verse 15).
Love is God’s priority, and it should be ours as
well. Nothing is harder than to give up a grudge,
overlook insults, or cast out a root of bitterness
from our hearts.
That is God’s way and His will, and we will
accomplish those things
through His strength
and Spirit .Look for a way to love someone
well today, even someone you’ve
recently
failed to love very well!
"When a human
act does not conform
to the standard of love, then it is not
right, nor good, nor
perfect."
Thomas Aquinas