Discover The Word

Friday, June 9, 2006

“Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Corinthians 13:4-7).

IDEA: God’s love for us is a very special kind of love.

PURPOSE: To show that the love of which the Bible speaks is supernatural.

Do you know that the Inuits do not have a single word for snow? They have at least 17 different words for snow. Why do you think that is?

Americans and Canadians have one or two words for snow. On the other hand, we do not have a single word for a bread product made from wheat. We have many different words.

In other cultures of the world, they have just one word for bread products made from wheat.

Language is not only a way to communicate; it’s a way to think.

I. What do we mean by our word love? How we answer that will reveal what we think about when we talk about love.

Let me give you some situations:

In every game in the tennis match, his opponent could not get beyond “love.”

Someone says, “I just love strawberries, but they give me a rash.”

A young man takes a young woman out to a restaurant that’s a little too expensive for him. Then they go walking on a warm summer night by the lake. They sit looking at the moonlight on the water, and he says to her, “I love you.” What does he mean?