Love is so strong, powerful, abstract and unquantifiable. Love is the deep feeling that people’s happiness is very important to you and evidenced in the way you show this feeling in behavior, character and attitude towards them. You prove love by showing kindness and good gestures to someone.

Moreover, it is a strong mutual feeling of deep affection for someone that you are more than willing to go extra mile to bring happiness and joy into such person’s life. God is the creator of love because it’s the power of love that keeps different people together for a very long time regardless of
their race, ethnic, religion, culture and other traits.

If there is true love in a family, happiness will be ensured, joy will overflow and such home will never be broken. Sharing of love among families, friends, colleagues, associates, partners, neighborhood will bridge the gap between the haves and the halves not. The rich will help the poor and there is love in sharing resources and welfare packages with neighbor.

Disobedience to love one another as commanded by God contributes to many problems facing the world today.

Isaiah 1:19 – 20
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for mouth of the LORD has spoken.

In general context, God said that we should love one another because He also loves us. We should not restrict love to partner, spouse, friends, families, colleagues, relatives and other people of interest but love should be shown to all and sundry because “One love keeps us together.”

1John 4:7-9
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.


God demonstrated love by sending his only Son to the world.

John 3:16.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

Even, Jesus Christ advocated that loving God and neighbor like oneself are the greatest commandments on earth.

Matthew 22: 37 - 39.
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 greatest and first commandment. And second is like it: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.


Jesus Christ said that love does not recognize enmity or hatred.

Matthew 5: 44
But, I say to you, Love your enemies and pray those who persecute you.

Loving your enemies does not permit vengeance.

Romans 12:17.
Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.


However, there is an assurance that enemy can be at peace with you if your way pleases God.

Proverbs 16:7.
When the ways of people please the LORD, he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.


How can love be promoted?



By Giving

There is love in giving whatever you have to meet needs of people. Giving is a show of love and sharing whatever you have will put smile on people's face. You can give sacrificially, financially, materially, resourcefully, morally and mentally to help the needy and less privileged.

There is great reward for giving to the needy and poor. Giving is not all about money or material things, it also entails giving out your time, energy or strength, intellect, professionalism, experience and many more to guide, counsel, mentor, support, assist and the likes towards the progress of others.

Acts 20: 35
In all this I have given you an example that by such work we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."


Service to Humanity

This entails rendering services to help people in the community by providing charitable care, social amenities, funds, scholarship, aids, assistance, sponsorship and being very active in social responsibility programmes. Service to humanity shows that the needy and poor are put into considering and God have great rewards for this kind gesture.

Psalm 41:1- 3
Happy are those who consider the poor; the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble. The Lord protects them and keeps them alive; they are called happy in the land. You do not give them up to the will of their enemies. The LORD sustains them on their sickbed; in their illness you heal all their infirmities.


Peaceful Co-existence

Peaceful co-existence can only be achieved and promoted if love exists among people. Love brings people together in peace and unity. The presence of love helps people to live together in peace without hatred and achieving common goals in occupation and activities will make them to co-exist.

Romans 12 :18
If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.


Unity

It is the state of being joined together. It takes love to make people share values, resources, culture, amenities and many more without racial discrimination. Racism should be discouraged because it is an unfair treatment of people who belong to a different race which always involve violent behavior towards them. Some people are well known for racial discrimination and a racist promotes hatred which is against the will of God to live together in unity.

Psalm 133:1
How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!


Good Neighborliness

A neighbor is someone that is next or near to you. Everybody is a neighbor and good neighborliness involves showing care to people by providing succor, help, assistance and giving out to meet their needs. If there is a neighbor in need that you can provide for his or her need, don’t hesitate to meet such need, it is a show of love.

Sharing of resources will also bring happiness to neighborhood. I don’t care attitude should be discouraged and pride is very ungodly. Underrating or downgrading neighbor because of social influence, riches, wealth possession and affluence without rendering help to the society is very ungodly and unloving.

Mark 12:31
The second is this, you should love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.


To learn more about love, read 1Corinthians 13:1 – 13.
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