To see, to smell, to taste, to feel, and to touch!

“Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no wrong to anyone, so love satisfies all of God’s requirements.” Romans 13:9-10

In order to ever be able to live out this passage I have to be able to understand, be filled with, and choose daily to show love. I want others to see love, smell love, taste love, feel love, and touch love. So what is love and how is love shown?

Love is

1. God

2. Jesus, the sacrifice, the blood, and the resurrection

3. A choice and an action

4. Holy, perfect, just, and pure

5. Patient

6. Kind

7. Not jealous

8. Not boastful

9. Not proud

10. Not rude

11. Does not demand its own way

12. Never loses faith

13. Always hopeful

14. Endures through ever circumstance

15. Not irritable

16. keeps no record of when it has been wronged

17. never glad about injustice

18. rejoices whenever the truth wins out

19. always and forever

To love means to possess all of these qualities not just a few, love means to be born of God who is love. Just as our passage says, “love does no wrong to anyone.” When the Holy Spirit lives within us it gives us the ability to love, it directs us, controls us, and teaches us. It is the Holy Spirit that fills us with love. Remember we have the stitching of Christ that was sown by the Holy Spirit, it is now up to us to do our part and show it, live it, breathe it, and obey it.

Do you understand God’s love for you?

Do you accept God’s love?

Are you returning that love to God and others?

Do you have the stitching of love sown within you?

Prayer: Lord through the power of the Holy Spirit may the love I have for You overflow onto the lives of others. Lord I believe in Your mighty name that I am able to obtain all these qualities of love through the Holy Spirit that lives within me. Lord place your eyes on top of mine so that I might see through Your vision, the vision of love for all things and all people. Amen