Bible Study - Hide Your Love Away

Lately I have found that we tend to jump at what is right in from of us.  Especially when it comes to love.  Now I know, thats been the topic forever.  Well, maybe.  It's just that sometimes we forget.  But, its the stuff we tend to pass by.  Like having a boyfriend or girlfriend.  Are you seriously considering spanding the rest of your life with them.  Why can't we wait?  It's hard, trust me, I know.  God gave me a promisse of a man so amazing.  And, he is going to wait for me, so why shouldn't I.  The world, culture want's to tell us different.  That waiting is boring.  That if you want something you have to go and get it.  Revelation 2: 4 "Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first." Ouch.  But it is so true.  Wait though, in Jeremiah 29: 11 " 'For know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.' "  So I encourage you.  Fall in love with the Lord.  As a friend of mine put it, "date Jesus."

So I found this song, on Valentines day of all days.  Anyway, it really made me think, and appreciate the fact that my other half is waiting for me like, I am for them.  I hope you can too. 


Hide Your Love Away - Anthem Lights (Official Lyric Video)

Bible Study - What is Love?

What is love?  Really think about this.  What is your definition of love?  I don't want you to just read this and agree.  Really, truly what is love to you.  Is it what you see in the movies.  Girl likes guy, he falls for her.  Happily ever after, with the same old pick up line, "She's different from other girls."  Seriously, how many times are we going to hear this line?  Or is love just for fairy tales.  You are always alone and that will never change.  This is a question that has been on my mind a lot recently.  The question i've asked my self is this.  Is love an action or a feeling.  When someone says "I love you,"what dose that mean.  I bet you've herd 1 Corinthians chapter 13 quoted before.  It is known as the love chapter.  It is most commonly read at weddings.  "Love is patient, love is kind.  It dose not envy, it dose not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no recored of wrongs.  Love dose not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hope, always preservers."  1 Corinthians 13: 4-7.  When I read that it seems like love is an action.  Just before this Paul is talking about the want to receive the gift of prophecy.  During this he writes, "If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.  If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing." So if love is not a feeling, than why do we idolize it?  Yet in order to love properly we would have to be perfect. John 3: 16, we all know very well.  It seems like that verse has be come a clique.  But check the verse right after, John 3: 17, "For God did not send his Son to the world to condem the world, but to save the world through him."  So Jesus was sent to love us.  Not to fall in love.  So the next time you hear some one say, "I love you," what will you think of.  What are you really saying when you say, "I love you too," to some one.  Because love is not just a feeling.  If anything, it is an action.