Love Part Twelve (final part of chapter)

Chapter 3 :
love
The greatest of all, the fruit of a great single life
Part Twelve (final part of chapter)
Loving ourselves
As the last part of this chapter, I must talk about the importance of loving ourselves. It’s important that we love ourselves if we are to love others – after all, the scripture says ‘love your neighbour [...]

Love Part Eleven

Chapter 3 :
love
The greatest of all, the fruit of a great single life
Part Eleven
Living as a single full of love- love is what makes us serve with joy and gratitude
Serving God in singleness, despite the suffering that we may go through, fills us with gratitude for God when we have love – because we become [...]

Love Part Ten

Chapter 3 :
love
The greatest of all, the fruit of a great single life
Part Ten
The point of love and how we have joy in suffering
Because of this reason – that love never fails – we now have the joy that sets us free to live lives of suffering. People don’t go to far away countries to [...]

Love Part Nine

Chapter 3 :
love
The greatest of all, the fruit of a great single life
Part Nine
A quick look at a definition of unconditional love
This love is what 1 Cor 13 is all about. God loves us unconditionally, and by His Spirit works through us to love the same.
1 Cor 13:4-8 gives us an overview of [...]

Love Part Eight

Chapter 3 :
love
The greatest of all, the fruit of a great single life
Part Eight
Why this is Good news
This is good news because love is what we need to get rid of our insecurities. This we know instinctively, which is why many of us constantly need someone around our arms to feel secure. This is also [...]

Love Part Seven

Chapter 3 :
love
The greatest of all, the fruit of a great single life
Part Seven
So singles – be free to love
Let’s quickly take a look at our own need for love before we can carry on talking about our loving others.
Love first comes from God. 1 John 4:19 says ‘we love each other as a [...]

Love Part Six

Chapter 3 :
love
The greatest of all, the fruit of a great single life
Part Six
The Good News
There is clearly a multitude of awesome things about this, and there is a reason why they call the Gospel the ‘good news’. It’s good news, because the perfect God, who loves perfectly, loves us perfectly – and so sent [...]

Love Part Five

Chapter 3 :
love
The greatest of all, the fruit of a great single life
Part Five
Unconditional love
Before we can understand why God’s way of loving is ‘higher’ or completely fulfilling, we need to first trust God to renew our minds in our understanding of love. There IS a big difference between the world’s way of loving, and [...]

Love Part Four

Chapter 3 :
love
The greatest of all, the fruit of a great single life
Part Four
The importance of relating this to the single life is we begin to be able to quench the desire (or, often, obsession) to love romantically. Our thirst for love is satisfied in God. Ever heard someone say ‘I just want to love [...]

Love Part Three

Chapter 3 :
love
The greatest of all, the fruit of a great single life
Part Three
The central point of the salvation story is not us – the central point is God, and what He has done and His love for us. We reap the benefits of this awesome loving God, but we are certainly not the heroes. [...]