THE 14 CHARACTERISTICS OF LOVE (SEVEN NEGATIVE AND 7 POSITIVE)
Good day friends of God. God is Love and because He is love, He wants us to be love as well. I would like to share the 7 negative characteristics of love with you. WHAT LOVE IS NOT!!!!in 2Corinthians 13.
1. LOVE DOES NOT ENVY – it is not jealous, it doesn’t see what others have and use wrong motives to get that same thing.
2. LOVE DOES NOT BOAST/BRAG – love isn’t always making pretensions statements about yourself or about anything.
3. LOVE IS NOT PROUD OR ARROGANT – love does not look down on people. Love treats everybody as valuable. Some people are good to those they respect or people that are above them, but arrogant or proud to those below them, but true love is the same viewed from any angle to everybody.
4. LOVE IS NOT RUDE OR ACT UNBECOMINGLY flatter) – if you really want to have good manners just show love. Good manners are really just love expressing itself.
5. LOVE IS NOT SELFSEEKING – it does not seek its own. It does not say this is mine, I’ve got a right to it. I’m gonna have it no matter what happens.
6. LOVE IS NOT EASILY ANGERED (NOT PROVOKED) – The moment we find anger rising up or we loose control by the way we speak to people or relate to people, we need to stop and remind ourselves that is not love operating in me. There is a kind of anger that is legitimate but it’s an anger against unrighteousness. It’s not an anger against persons.
7. LOVE KEEP NO RECORD OF WRONG (my favorite one) OR DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE WRONG OFFERED – how dangerous it is to make a mental list of the things other people have done against you or the things they owe to us.
Psalm 130:3-4 If you, GOD, kept records on wrongdoings, who would stand a chance? 130:4 As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit, and that's why you're worshiped.
If I were to sum up the negative features of love that are just listed in one single statement, I would say it’s as this…. LOVE IS NOT INSECURE!!!
Any person who acts contrary to those principles, Paul lists as an insecure person and LOVE IS TOTALLY SECURE.
I hope you are blessed by these words and the seven positive characteristics of love will follow shortly. Please do take your time to read and to think about your love towards the next person.
If you have any time on your hands, I would really like you to share some of your experiences where love is concerned.
C.L.A.Y. – Changing Lives Around You
Young Adults Loving Christ
(Leslene & Marco)
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