The Love Challenge: Better understand love better
So in the past I made a love challenge in a Facebook group that I did for Christian single mothers. The challenge was intended for women like you to participate with me exploring the way of “love”.
The writing, tasks, reflections and even opportunities to share your thoughts and experiences. I wanted to do it in the Facebook group to increase the community for single mothers and to offer a safe space to explore our perspectives on love through the filter of God’s Word.
It was also a great opportunity to evaluate again how I felt about love myself.
As a single mother, I had a distorted views on love from my upbringing, earlier relationships and other experiences that I have observed right in front of my eyes. As I grew in my Christian walk, I realized that I had shortages in the love department.
Most of my pain points were focused on experiences that I thought were love or where I was looking for love.
When I finally acknowledged that God is love, it was time for me to dig deeper to better understand love from the word.
Why is it so important to better understand love?
Just think back to all the relationships and experiences you have had in your life. Most relationships had a transaction of love or opportunity to work in love, if not all.
Most of us walked around with insufficient definitions and inaccurate displays of what love is – on return, which influence our interpretations, as well as the experiences of others with love. This reasoning is why it is so important to understand in a healthy way.
Think of your children and how God chose you to guide them and discuss them on this journey called Life. Do you want the world to tell them what love is or experience things in the hard way?
Every parent would want his child to go through what they had to endure. The same applies to love; It must be learned and experienced to better understand love.
So I decided it is time to do a current study.
When I looked up all the love writings in the Bible, I was overwhelmed, but I wanted to understand love so much that I did the work of digesting one verse at the same time. And I wanted to share it with you.
Below is the list of my upper Bible verses to better understand love; the same verses that I used for one 28-day single mother Love Challenge.
28 Bible verses to better understand love
(NLT -version)
Week 1:
1 John 4:10
This is true love – not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take our sins away.
Mark 12:31
The second is just as important: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
I Corinthians 13: 4-5
Love is patient and friendly. Love is not jealous or boasty or proud 5Or rude. It does not require its own way. It is not irritable and is not left over.
I John 4: 8
But everyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
Complaints 3:22
The loyal love of the Gentleman Never ends! His mercy never stop.
I Corinthians 13: 6
It does not look forward to injustice, but delights itself when the truth wins.
I John 3:18
Dear children, let’s not just say that we love each other; Let’s show the truth through our actions.
Week 2:
Proverbs 13:24
Those who save the rod of discipline hate their children.
Those who love their children give enough to discipline them.
I Corinthians 13: 7
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and remains due to every circumstance.
Ephesians 4: 2
Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other and keep reimbursement for each other’s mistakes because of your love.
1 Johannes 4: 16-17
Dear friends, let’s continue to love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves is a child of God and God knows.
Romans 8: 38-39
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life nor angels nor demons, Neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow – even the forces of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in heaven above or in the earth below – indeed, nothing in the entire creation will ever be able to separate from the love of God that is revealed our Lord in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 6:12
There is no lack of love on our part, but you have withheld your love from us.
Song of Songs 3: 4
Then I barely left them When I found my love!
Week 3:
2 Johannes 1: 6
Love means doing what God has offered us, and He ordered us to love each other, just as you heard from the beginning.
Colossians 3:14
Clever above everything else with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony.
Proverbs 10:12
Hate stops arguing, But love makes up for all violations.
1 John 4:18
Such love has no fear, because perfect love drives off all fear. If we are afraid, it is out of fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.
Romans 12: 9
Don’t just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold on to what is good.
Proverbs 17:17
A friend is always loyal (love), And a brother is born to help in time of need.
Matthew 22:37
Jesus answered, ” You have to do the Gentleman Your God with all your heart, all your soul and all your spirit. ‘
Week 4:
Deuteronomy 6: 4-5
“Listen, O Israel! The Gentleman Is our God, the Gentleman only. And you have to do the Gentleman Your God with all your heart, all your soul and all your strength.
John 14:23
Jesus answered, “Everyone who loves me will do what I say. My father will love them, and we will come and make our house with each of them.
Proverbs 27: 5
An open reprimand Is better than hidden love!
1 Corinthians 16:14
And do everything with love.
2 Timothy 3: 1-5
You should know this, Timothy, that there will be very difficult times in the last days. Because people will only love themselves and their money. They will be boasting and proud, spotting God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will not consider nothing holy. They will be incomparable and ruthless; They will tackle others and have no self -control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, proudly blown up and have fun instead of God. They will act religiously, but they will reject the power that can make them divine. Stay away from such people!
1 John 4: 7
Dear friends, let’s continue to love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves is a child of God and God knows.
1 Corinthians 13:13
Three things will last forever – faith, hope and love – and the greatest of this is love.
I have also recorded some honorable mentions to better understand love:
- 2 Corinthians 12:15
- Isaiah 42: 18-19
- 1 Peter 4: 8
- Psalm 13: 5
- Romans 5: 8
- Hebrew 13: 5-6
- Luke 10:27
All in all,
Love is more than what you need. It is more of how you can serve someone else in a healthy way and receive the same love in exchange.
If you think you need extra support to better understand the love of God, I would encourage you to pray to God to reveal himself to you so that you can better understand love in his way.
You can also contact a familiar spiritual friend or adviser who can walk with you and can break down any bias/strongholds that you may have.
Need more help to understand and receive guidance to make more confidence in love and be loved?
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You can also become a member of the Women looking for Trust Facebook group For a community of women went in the same direction as you with regard to growing relationships: