Love Myths

Conclusion

By Sarah Shuling

So why is it that there are these love myths? I learned that we are sinful and we live in a sinful world. We are tempted and led by our desires to sin. And we cover up our sin with excuses and reasons to justify. But it is wrong because God says it’s wrong. God is our Master Creator. So what right do we have to go against this design and say that His design or His ideas are faulty and that we have a better plan?

I hate to admit it, but we are selfish by nature. Many things that we do are for ourselves and to benefit ourselves. When queried on why people want to get married, a large majority of people will give selfish reasons like to fulfill their personal needs for physical touch, sex, pleasure, & loneliness. Most people do not recognize that marriage is a sacred covenant designed by God and is actually to glorify God and to edify your partner in marriage. So when we go into marriage, we should be looking at how to fulfill our partner and how to glorify God through our marriage instead of focusing on ourselves and how we can be fulfilled.

The Bible speaks of godlessness in the last days. It is scary, but we must be aware that this is already starting to happen around us, and we should not be alarmed when this happens. Because the Bible has already foretold of this.

2 Timothy 3

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth—men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.

Psalm 97:10
Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

There are many more myths and facts that we are not able to cover here. But know this, when you are doubtful, go back to the Word of God. Develop a personal and right relationship with Him so that He will give you wisdom and direction to discern what is right and wrong. And remember that what the world/society says is not always correct.

 

More Instructions from the Bible on Love
(not an exhaustive list):

 

Proverbs 3:3
Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Proverbs 3:11-13
My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding,

Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

Proverbs 8:36
But whoever fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death."

Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.

Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.

Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Proverbs 20:6
Many a man claims to have unfailing love, but a faithful man who can find?

Luke 10:27
He answered: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' ; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' "

John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

Romans 12:9
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

Romans 12:10
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.

Romans 13:8
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:10
Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

1 Corinthians 8:3
But the man who loves God is known by God.

1 Corinthians 16:14
Do everything in love.

Ephesians 4:2
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

1 John 3:18
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 John 4:20
If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

1 John 4:21
And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Revelation 3:19
Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.

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