{"id":19126,"date":"2026-05-28T18:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/?p=19126"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:45:07","slug":"theres-no-more-struggling-in-defining-love-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/theres-no-more-struggling-in-defining-love-4\/","title":{"rendered":"THERE’S NO MORE STRUGGLING IN DEFINING LOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

THERE’S NO MORE STRUGGLING IN DEFINING LOVE: FOR GOD IS LOVE!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Beloved, let us LOVE one another: for LOVE is of God; and\u00a0every one\u00a0that LOVETH is born of God, and\u00a0knoweth\u00a0God. 8 He that LOVETH not KNOWETH not God; FOR GOD IS LOVE . . . 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. GOD IS LOVE; and he that dwelleth in LOVE dwelleth in God, and God in HIM . . .”<\/i>\u00a01 John 4:7-21.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u00a0\u2018m\u00a0graciously and gracefully glad to remind you\u00a0of our New Creation way of doing life and living godly in Christ Jesus stead. Amen –\u00a0It’s\u00a0the hallmark pathway called LOVE. And LOVE\u00a0is\u00a0God’s beautiful gift given to us all,\u00a0to share\u00a0and\u00a0express life\u00a0towards\u00a0Him and\u00a0mankind, without sentiments,\u00a0prejudice\u00a0and dissimulation,\u00a0–\u00a0it’s\u00a0irrespective of gender, culture, status, colour,\u00a0tongue\u00a0or\u00a0religion.\u00a0For LOVING is giving,\u00a0and GIVING is of God – for God so LOVE that He GAVE. Love is of God. He who loves, knows God.\u00a0God is the embodiment of LOVE;\u00a0For LOVE is God personified in the grace.\u00a0[1 John 4:8, 16 (1-21); 1 Corinthians 13:1-13]<\/b>. For\u00a0Love God gave – the genuine love of God is in the giving. Giving is not necessarily love, but loving in the\u00a0grace\u00a0involves giving\u00a0like\u00a0God gave us our Saviour and Lord\u00a0Jesus\u00a0Christ;\u00a0and whoever does not love is not of God in Christ\u00a0Jesus’\u00a0stead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“For God SO LOVED the world that He GAVE His only begotten Son, that WHOEVER BELIEVES in Him should NOT PERISH but have EVERLASTING LIFE. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 \u201cHe who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God”<\/i>\u00a0John 3:16-18\/NKJV.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who DOES NOT LOVE DOES NOT KNOW God, for GOD IS LOVE . . . 20 If someone says, \u201cI love God,\u201d and HATES his brother, he is a liar; for he who DOES NOT LOVE his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also”<\/i>\u00a01 John 4:7-21\/NKJV.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“. . . 13 Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who DOES NOT LOVE his brother abides in death. 15 Whoever HATES his brother is a MURDERER, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him . . .”\u00a0<\/i>1 John 3:1-24\/NKJV<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Love\u00a0is\u00a0the most excellent way to covet and express spiritual gifts that gives the enabling to live and do life in\u00a0every way\u00a0in Christ Jesus stead. Love is the only way to express God and His goodness to others and to yourself. And as gracious and graceful FAITH is in the EFFECTUAL WALK with God, it takes LOVE as the lubricant to make FAITH functional to ensure and assure of the fellowship with God and man.\u00a0Love enables faith\u00a0to WORK and WALK\u00a0in all likelihood\u00a0of doing LIFE and GODLY LIVING.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you A MORE EXCELLENT WAY”<\/i>\u00a01 Corinthians 12:31.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision\u00a0availeth\u00a0any thing, nor uncircumcision; but FAITH WHICH WORKETH BY LOVE . . .13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by LOVE SERVE one another”<\/i>\u00a0Galatians 5:6, 13.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you for any reason struggling in defining the genuineness of this kind of God’s LOVE – I encourage you to just have\u00a0it settled now\u00a0that – God Is LOVE. Meaning, God is the DEFINITION of Love, which is shed abroad in our hearts and thoughts by the blessed Holy Spirit of grace that is given to us as our enabler. Amen.\u00a0[Galatians 5:6, 13; Romans 5:5, 8, 1 John 4:8, 16; 1 Corinthians 12:31].<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

May you live experiencing and expressing the blessed LOVE called AGAPE – God’s kind of LOVE,\u00a0the\u00a0unconditional LOVE\u00a0that’s\u00a0POWERED by the indwelling Holy Spirit.\u00a0[Romans 5:5].<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Beloved, let us LOVE one another: for LOVE is of God; and\u00a0everyone\u00a0that LOVETH is born of God, and\u00a0knoweth\u00a0God. 8 He that LOVETH not KNOWETH not God; FOR GOD IS LOVE . . . 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. GOD IS LOVE; and he that dwelleth in LOVE dwelleth in God, and God in HIM . . .”<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>1 John 4:7-21.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, I am nothing. 3 And though I BESTOW all my goods to FEED the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, it profits me nothing . . . 13 And now ABIDE faith, hope, LOVE, these three; BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE”<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>1 Corinthians13:1-13.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the LOVE of God is shed abroad in our HEARTS by the Holy Ghost which is GIVEN unto us . . .8 But God\u00a0commendeth\u00a0his LOVE toward us,\u00a0in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us”\u00a0<\/i>Romans 5:5, 8.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“This is my commandment,\u00a0That\u00a0ye LOVE one another, as I have LOVED you. 13 Greater LOVE hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you”<\/i>\u00a0J<\/i><\/b>ohn 15:12-14.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“A NEW commandment I give unto you,\u00a0That\u00a0ye LOVE one another; as I have LOVED you, that ye also LOVE one another. 35 By this shall all men KNOW that ye ARE my DISCIPLES, if ye have LOVE one to another”<\/i>\u00a0John 13:34-35.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision\u00a0availeth\u00a0anything, nor uncircumcision; but FAITH WHICH WORKETH BY LOVE . . .13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by LOVE serve one another”<\/i>\u00a0Galatians 5:6, 13.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SUMMARY:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The message emphasises that God is Love\u00a0(1 John 4:8, 16)<\/b>, and this love is the hallmark of the new creation way of life in Christ Jesus. Love is God’s beautiful gift to us, enabling us to live and express life towards Him and\u00a0mankind\u00a0without prejudice, dissimulation, or sentiment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Key Points<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n