John 13:34-35<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0\u201cA new command\u00a0I give you: Love one another.\u00a0As I have loved you, so you must love one another.\u00a035\u00a0By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Forrest Gump \u201cI may not be a smart man, but I know what Love is.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Every Down Syndrome person I have known has been extremely loving.\u00a0\u00a0I sometimes wonder who should be considered handicapped.<\/p>\n
Princess Bride \u201cYou keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Many of us say we are loving people.\u00a0\u00a0We should search the Word of God to find out what, to God, love is.\u00a0\u00a0Start with what Jesus did for us.<\/p>\n
John 15:9-13<\/b>\u00a0\u201cAs the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.\u00a010<\/a>\u00a0If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father\u2019s commands and remain in his love.\u00a011<\/a>\u00a0I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.\u00a012<\/a>\u00a0My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.\u00a013<\/a>\u00a0Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n Galatians 5:14<\/b>\u00a0\u201cFor the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”<\/i><\/p>\n James 2:14-17<\/b>\u00a0\u201cWhat good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds?\u00a0Can such faith save them?\u00a015\u00a0Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.\u00a016\u00a0If one of you says to them, \u201cGo in peace; keep warm and well fed,\u201d but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?\u00a017\u00a0In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n 1 John 4:8<\/b>\u00a0\u201cWhoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has\u00a0shown you, Oh man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of you, but\u00a0to do justly, to love\u00a0mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.<\/p>\n Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John 13:34-35\u00a0–\u00a0\u201cA new command\u00a0I give you: Love one another.\u00a0As I have loved you, so you must love one another.\u00a035\u00a0By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.\u201d Forrest Gump \u201cI may not be a smart man, but I know what Love is.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Every Down Syndrome person I have known has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[1969,1700,100,93,94,1874,17],"class_list":["post-2715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-galatians","tag-james","tag-john","tag-mark","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}