Love Is Supreme

[longtimeago 0]

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, patience, kindness goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. (Galatians 5: 22)

In this Bible verse, Paul lists a cluster of nine qualities which together he calls as the fruit of the Spirit, but of all these, love takes the first place. If we ask people, what is the chief distinguishing mark of a Christian, we get different answers. Some say truth, some say correct doctrines, some say faith and others say integrity and still others emphasize service. Yes, all these are indispensable characters a Christian should have, but nothing can take the place of love. For

God is love(1 John 4 :8)

The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are united to each other in selfgiving love. Love is the principal, the paramount, the preeminent, the distinguishing characteristic of the people of God. Nothing can dislodge or replace it, Love is supreme.
Dear friends, we live in a world where love is becoming a rare commodity. Even within the family, love between parents and children, love between husband and wife, and love between the siblings is diminishing and as a result unity is lost and relationship is strained. As children of a loving Father, let us love one another. If we put on love the prime fruit of the Spirit then joy and peace will automatically follow. When we are filled with Gods love, we would be more patient even with irritating people. We would be kind to others even if they treat us badly. We would serve others and be good to them. We would be faithful in all our dealings, and our promises. We would show our gentleness to all. Above all, we would master our self and be controlled by the Holy Spirit. So let us crucify our self with Christ. Let us be filled with the Holy Spirit who pours out Gods love into our hearts. Let us strive to become like Jesus, who possessed all these nine qualities in Him.

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In this Bible verse, Paul lists a cluster of nine qualities which together he calls as the fruit of the Spirit, but of all these, love takes the first place. If we ask people, what is the chief distinguishing mark of a Christian, we get different answers. Some say truth, some say correct doctrines, some say faith and others say integrity and still others emphasize service. Yes, all these are indispensable characters a Christian should have, but nothing can take the place of love. For The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are united to each other in selfgiving love. Love is the principal, the paramount, the preeminent, the distinguishing characteristic of the people of God. Nothing can dislodge or replace it, Love is supreme.
Dear friends, we live in a world where love is becoming a rare commodity. Even within the family, love between parents and children, love between husband and wife, and love between the siblings is diminishing and as a result unity is lost and relationship is strained. As children of a loving Father, let us love one another. If we put on love the prime fruit of the Spirit then joy and peace will automatically follow. When we are filled with God's love, we would be more patient even with irritating people. We would be kind to others even if they treat us badly. We would serve others and be good to them. We would be faithful in all our dealings, and our promises. We would show our gentleness to all. Above all, we would master our self and be controlled by the Holy Spirit. So let us crucify our self with Christ. Let us be filled with the Holy Spirit who pours out God's love into our hearts. Let us strive to become like Jesus, who possessed all these nine qualities in Him.

Throughout his life, one can see, love playes an important part in our growth. A mother's nurturing care develops a child into strength of life. Family helps in being a good citizen, Friends help in being a sociable person. Knowingly or unknowingly we all are surrounded with the charm and power of love. We always tend to show affinity towards love.
To feel the eternal peace you have to learn to love. We all do what we do for our loved ones. Love is no where seperate from our existance and being so much submerged in this feeling, we can easily infer that love is supreme.

[contactskn 2]

Dear friend not only me but many of us will agree with you in this point that love is supreame. It may be loving your beloved, your parents, your children or even any creature in this world. In love only love spreads. Love should be to all those who loves you and even if don't then ?also if you start loving them obviously your approach will change them once and they will automatically start loving you. Love is in other words described as God. That is love in its purity and divine state equals God. How true it is. I always think why people fight, why terrorism, why criminality and many other whys as such. But many a times never gets a proper answer for it.?LOVE IS GOD AND GOD IS LOVE.?

Edited January 16, 2009 by contactskn (see edit history)