2 Peter 1:2-9 (8)

What?
"make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection and to mutual affection, love.

Love의 관련된 말씀 몇가지
- Love your enemy Matt 5:44
- Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth (1 John 3:18)
- There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. (1 John 4:18)
- Whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. whoever loves God must also love his brother.
- God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him 
(1John 4)
- Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 
- Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (1 Cor 13)


So what?
 The bible passages show that love must be given to all, not just to my brothers and sisters but to all. It should be the motive for everything that we do and we should not be intimated when we are acting in love because perfect love casts out fear, God himself is love and when we practise love we are abiding in Him and He in us.


Now what?
1. Lets practice love, its really not enough to just think in your head it will form lasting fruits when we act!
2. Love should be our motive, then God becomes our motive.
3. Lets always protect, trust, hope and persevere.


There is definitely a lot to take in from this huge topic love, It is for sure that love is the greatest among all. God is love, therefore when we see and act in the lens of love I believe that is a way for us to abide in God and do His good will.

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