Finding The Selfless Love Of God …
16 Bible Verses and 2 Real Life Stories …
What this post is all about: The world’s a tough place…
It’s hard to find real love when we need it.
But maybe the selfless love of God is all around us, all the time.
Consider these two stories and 16 Bible verses…
Today is a cold, dark winter day where I live…
Ice covers the streets…
Putting on gloves and a jacket and a hat feels like a lot of work, and leaving a warm house for a cold car seems like a bad decision.
But if I stay in that warm house, I’ll have no food tonight
So I go out into the dark cold weather that seems to be a metaphor for a world where it’s hard to find warmth and kindness and love… even the love of God.
A few blocks from home, I’m in the right turn lane…
But I can’t see traffic from my left because of a very big car next to me.
Guess what happens next??
The driver of the big car backs up so I can see the traffic…
I make my right turn because he chooses to be kind to me…
Kind in a totally selfless way…
There was nothing in it for him. I’ll never know his name, never have a chance to be kind to him. I’ll probably never even see him again, and if I did, I wouldn’t recognize him.
I make my right turn and drive to the grocery store, thinking that I have probably just experienced my one kind deed for the day.
As it turned out, I was wrong.
At the store I find everything I need… everything but that one final item I can’t leave without.
After searching for 5 minutes, I ask a clerk …
“At the end of Aisle 3,” she says
I walk to aisle 3.
It’s not there.
Just then the clerk appears…
“I sent you to the wrong place,” she says. “But I found what you wanted.” She smiles and hands it to me.
With no guarantee I was still in the store, she looked for what I wanted, found it, then searched for me.
She chose to be kind. Not for her benefit. But for mine.
Just like the driver next to me…
Just like God, who chooses to share his selfless love with us through His mercy and grace…
God, who shares His Selfless Love with us, and then asks us to share it with others…
Luke 6:31
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Check out these 16 Bible verse on the Selfless Love of God …
Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Ephesians 4:32
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Colossians 3:12
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Zechariah 7:9
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,
Matthew 6:14
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
Proverbs 21:21
Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.
Job 6:14
“He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Luke 6:31
And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
James 1:27
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world
1 John 3:17
But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
Galatians 6:9
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Matthew 22:37-39
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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