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Looking for Love?

People all over the world are looking for love. According to Amazon.com, there are at least 32,507 books currently in print with the word love in the title (over 145,000 that deal with the subject of love). There are more than 11,000 popular albums/CDs with love in the title. A Google search of the Internet reveals that there are at least 121,000,000 Websites that use the word love as one of their key words.¹

The Bible is a book about a love story. It is about God’s love for humanity, His wooing of our affection through the mediator, His Son. The word love (various forms) is found 419 times in the Bible. The book of 1 John has love for its theme. It tells us that “God is love” (1 John 4:8), and then shows that God has demonstrated—made manifest—His love (3:16; 4:9–10). Love is not just something we feel; it is more often something we do.

Love requires action; it is demonstrated through behavior. God’s love is more than just talk; He demonstrated compassion so we would learn to be compassionate. As Paul said, “Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it” (1 Thessalonians 5:24). John wrote, “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth” (1 John 3:18; cf. James 2:15–16).

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