A New Kind of Love
Receive God’s love, then give it a deliberate form through patience, kindness, generosity, or forgiveness.
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--- slug: a-new-kind-of-love title: A New Kind of Love series: A Few Minutes in the Word targetDurationSeconds: 210 scriptures: - Romans 5:5 - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 - 1 John 4:19 sourceWorks: - eb-17 - eb-450 teacherAnchor: Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille editorialLabel: Original adaptation --- ## Spoken script Love is easy to admire in a verse. It is harder—and far more beautiful—to choose it in the middle of an ordinary day. Romans 5:5 says, “the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Notice where the verse begins. It does not ask you to manufacture God’s love from an empty heart. God gives. We receive. Then what has been placed within us can take shape in the way we think, speak, and act. First John 4:19 puts it simply: “We love him, because he first loved us.” Our love is a response before it is an achievement. The archive teachings behind this r