What is Love?

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
(John 15:12-13)

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
(1 John 4:7-10)

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Do you ever stop and think about how much it cost to die on the cross? "But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5) The Bible says it all- "Greater love has no one than this, that a man lays down his life for his friends."

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (1 Peter 1:3)

We serve an awesome Creator and Savior!

(Scripture quotes NIV. Photo from Bing.)