Fruit of the Spirit - Day 1 - Love

I'm sure you've all heard the Fruit of the Spirit?



But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 (NASB)




I am starting a new 'trend' for the month of September, I will be doing a post on each of the fruits of the spirit, every day in the month. (Now, there's only 9, so I won't be going the whole month. but you get the point. ;) )






Today's Fruit of the Spirit is: Love

Now there's lots in The Bible about Love... Wanna know why? Well, it's because our Heavenly Father loves us with a Never Stopping Unbreaking Always and Forever Love (that's from my Jesus Storybook Bible. :) I didn't write that by the way.) Some verses about love are:


“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:43-48 (NASB)



And my absolute favorite:







New International Version (NIV)


If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 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 do not have love, I am nothing.  If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

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

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes,what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13 (NIV)

Love is an un-explainable thing, it's something that I can not find words to say, it's wonderful; That's the only word in my vocabulary that I can find that fits LOVE. It says in the above verse: "Love is patient, love in 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. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the Truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."






Isn't that just absolutely AWESOME?! I simply cannot find any words to explain the AMAZING LOVE.


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"But the greatest of these, is Love."