Characteristics of Love: Love is Thoughtful
1 John 4:16,18 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Introduction: Welcome to another week at Hìs feet as Scriptures speak to us for blissful marital union. His words command peace to every storm.
🙏 I pray that the Almighty God will send His words to our lives and family in Jesus name.
The 4th Characteristic of God’s kind of Love: “Love is Thoughtful”
We are continuing to look at the characteristics of God’s kind of Love. Another characteristic for this week is “Love is Thoughtful”
To be thoughtful is to remember other people’s wants, needs and feelings without upsetting them. If we have the knowledge that we are to have the nature of God as His children, then we must exhibit God’s kind of Love that is thoughtfully peaceful.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Anyone without good and peaceful thoughts towards his or her spouse ìs not of God.
1 John 3:10-11 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Starting from the home, as children of God, we are to be thoughtful towards one another. Spouses are to remember wants, needs and feelings of one another without being presumptuous of negative behaviour or past offence that can upset.
🛑 Love is Thoughtful. God’s kind of Love puts someone in the shoes of another that is in wants, needs and words that are seasoned with salt coming out of the mouth which can positively affect feelings.
During the questions and answers at one of our teaching services, a lady said she told her fiancé about abortion she did before they met. There was a day she had stomach upset and her fiancé asked if she had committed abortion again. The comment worried her and asked if continuing with the relationship is advisable.
❓Will someone in love that is thoughtful make such comments that negatively affect feelings of the loved one?
Anyone with God’s kind of Love that is thoughtful will not use the past to make hurtful comments against the beloved.
Thoughts of God toward us are precious and we are to be like our Heavenly Father.
Psalm 139:17-18 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
God’s thoughts toward us bring numerous wonderful works despite our unfaithfulness.
Psalm 40:5 Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
❓What kinds of thoughts do we have towards our loved ones?
Good thoughts bring good works and evil thoughts bring bad feelings towards the so called beloved.
God’s Love is thoughtful on the poor and needy to help and deliver. Likewise, anyone with Agape Love will be thoughtful on the poor and needy without derogatory comments on their predicaments.
Psalm 40:17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
🛑 The righteous thinks right and the unrighteous is full of deceit. Singles are to have right standing with God so as to detect deceitful relationships with valentine’s love instead of God’s kind of Love. Anyone without true and unalloyed relationship with God will be deceived through worldly love into marriage that is hell on Earth.
Proverbs 12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
In being thoughtful and before reacting to our spouses, Scriptures speak on what we should think on:
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
❓What practical step are we to take this week?
In still embarking on previous steps, contact your spouse sometime during the business of the day. Have no agenda other than asking how he or she is doing and if there is anything you could do for them.
✍ Finally brethren, let us consider what Jesus did for us while we were yet sinners, do not keep in your heart offence from your spouse, but be thoughtful to remember past good moments and reach out in love to meet his or her wants, needs and feelings.
Hebrews 12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
✋ Maranatha
