LOVE MONTH

February is one of the most awaited months of many since this month is considered as our Love

month. A month where we celebrate the sweetness of love, a month where we find red as our favorite color, a month where we spend so much money for red roses and tulips and sunflowers, a month where we fall in love over and over again and a month where most couples makes most out of their efforts to show to their partner in life how much they truly love them.

But for you, what is love?

“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 does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres.

Love never fails.”

1 CORINTHIANS 3:4-8

Many believe that there is no perfect and accurate explanation of love than what 1 Corinthians

13 tells us.

Love is not only for those who are in relationships always; it can be with your mom, dad,

neighbors, friends, workmates, and a love for yourself.

LOVE YOURSELF

Love is not just about giving love to others; you need to know that the first step of love is to love

yourself first. It is hard to shower your unending love if you forgot to accept and love who you really are.

You need to know that you alone are well deserved of everything in this world; you alone are enough and have nothing to prove to anyone. Never make yourself an option to somebody because you are.

God’s top priority and you are fearfully and wonderfully made by God himself (Psalm 139:13-14).

Start walking alone in the street, start shopping alone, try to eat alone, start reading books,

make yourself productive every single day, improve your wellbeing, improve yourself.

Remember that being alone doesn’t mean that you are lonely; it only means that you start learning to love your own company even without the approval of many.

“If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else, Loving starts with the self.” – Wayne Dyer

LOVING OTHERS

My former pastor always said that start being blessed that you can be a blessing to others. Being

a blessing to others means showering them with all the love that you can without expecting anything in return. Don’t you know that today, you are one of the reasons why someone feels loved. Your smile, your laughter, your sweetness, all your corny jokes, your unending stories, your hugs and kisses and your wonderful presence makes someone’s life complete because of you. Loving others doesn’t mean you need to lend them money always or treat them always or give them expensive gifts just to say and show how much you love them. Mostly, it’s not all about the gifts and money, it is all about how willing and how far you will take to be with someone for better and for worse, in richer and in poorer, and in sickness and in health.

Loving others is one of our greatest and most wonderful jobs, why? In this way, we unknowably

shower them with God’s unending love.

“ Love is not just today; love is yesterday, today, tomorrow, and for the rest of your life. Love is for you and for me. Love is meant and well deserve for everyone” – Daryll Jane

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Best Bible Verses about LOVE

1 CORINTHIANS 13:6-7

"Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

GENESIS 2:24 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."

1 CORINTHIANS 16:14

“Do everything in love."

EPHESIANS 5:25 “For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her."

ROMANS 13:8 “Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law."

MARK 10:9 “Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

COLOSSIANS 3:14 "And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."

1 JOHN 2:9-10 "Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble."

PSALM 143:8 "Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life."

1 JOHN 4:8 "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."

ROMANS 12:9-10 "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves."

1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-5 "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

PROVERBS 4:23 "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it."

PROVERBS 3:3-4 "Let love and faithfulness never leave you; Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man."

GALATIANS 5:1 "You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; Rather, serve one another humbly in love."

1 PETER 4:8 "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."

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