How can you love God whom you have not seen? You love God by loving others. The basic nature of God is love. When we love others with unselfish love, we are taking on the nature of God and in effect loving him. We are commanded to love God and love our neighbor as our self. When we do this, we are demonstrating that we love God.

When you enter the world of Christianity, you must change your basic nature. The world has programmed us to look out for ourselves, to do whatever is necessary to get ahead. God created us with the instinct for self preservation. As a Christian, however, we must look out for others also.

After all these years of building up self we must sacrifice self some time and effort, to serve others. This is one of the most difficult lessons Christians have to learn. It may seem as if we are coldly and deliberately sabotaging self. In reality, we are simply learning to love others as we do our self (Luke 10:27).

Christians are supposed to operate by agape love. We are to have genuine concern for other people. Christianity has failed to change the world because too few Christians understand or are willing to operate in this fashion.

The word love brings up many things in our mind. Greek and Latin terminology has different words for love. Flirtatious love, brotherly love. Sexual love. Friendship love, logical love, smothering love, divine love.The English language has only one word for love. Is it any wonder that we have trouble defining this word?

In Greek, agape is used in most Scriptures that deal with the love man has for God, and God has for man. It describes the very nature of God. God is love. Since we are made in his image, it should describe our nature.

Jesus introduced agape love principles with the golden rule: Do to others what you would have them do to you (Matthew 7:12 ). This law is based on Leviticus 19:18. Love your neighbor as yourself. It is called the Royal law in James 2:8, because all laws of relationship are based upon it.

The principles of agape apply in also marriage also. Husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5:25). Wives are to submit to their husbands (Ephesians 5:22, 24).This submission is to be done out of love and respect (Ephesians 5:33), and she is to be worthy of respect (1Timothy 3:11). The husband does not control his own body but the wife.The wife does not control her own body but the husband.(1Corinthians 7:4).

Romantic love is great, but it is by nature, selfish,seeking self needs only. Agape love causes each partner to seek satisfaction for their spouse first. Both needs are met in a beautiful relationship if agape principles are followed. Marriages fail because people quit being concerned for their spouse.

John describes love with the three letters "G-O-D" and the three words "God is Love." The world describes love as an emotion. It is much more than that. It is giving and commitment. It is demonstrated in John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son. He loved, he gave the most precious gift it was possible to give. He is committed to us for life, like we are to be to our spouse.

Do not love the world, or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him. (First John 2:15). This is referring to evil ways of the world. We have to make a distinction between people and what they do. God loves everyone, but he does not like the evil things they do. We are to love those things that are true, worthy of respect, what is just, pure, lovely or commendable (Philippians 4:8.).



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Cow can you not love God whom you cannot see bit is omnipresent? don't bite what you cant chew. Just because buhari's certificate saga wasn't sited for long doesn't mean that it is a lie. Got my example?

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That's absurd