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God is love : seeking the good of others

 God created for rhe purpose of love. Not because He needed any love for He is all sufficient, but for the purpose of sharing His great love with created beings. What then does it mean to love ? To love is to give, to seek for the highest good of another. They are many things that masquerade themselves as love,but under close scrutiny will prove to be selfishness.  An example of what love is not is having sex with someone you are not married to. A man will tell his girlfriend, "I love you and you know I am going to marry you, so its okay for us to get intimate before marriage since we are going to get married anyway." Is this love ? No, its not. Its lust, its selfishness masquerading as love.  There are at least two things lacking here and with out these two things you can't have love. Patience and self control. In order to love someone else you must be patient with them, to love someone else require great self control . The boyfriend or girlfriend demonstrated lack of lo

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We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:6