walkingwithYeshua

  What is Love? "  If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  2  If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.  3  If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; [ a ]  but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. 4  Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud  5  or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.  6  It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.  7  Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance."  (1Corinthians 13:1-7) Pastor of ou...

      Adam and Eve in the Garden od Eden by  Wenzel Peter(1745-1829)  Vatican pinacoteca       Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.  “At last!” the man exclaimed.  “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh!  She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’” This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.  (Genesis 2: 22-24 NLT) The very first marriage ever was an arranged marriage.  Arranged by God, nonetheless.  Adam declared, she is my flesh and bone, she is one with me.  Scripture says they were naked and not ashamed.  This was before the fall.  This is an immediate and complete acceptance of Woman by the very first man.  I imagine the feeling of safety, contentment, acceptance, and love.  Then they ate from the tree of knowledge of ...