The basic thing

[marie glen]

Love rules.
We are not our own.

[Dandelion]

One verse that pops into my mind, upon seeing this is:

...19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

1 Corinthians 6:20

Also,

16By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 17If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

18Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth. 19And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence: 20If our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.

21Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God, 22and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight. 23And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us. 24Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.

1 John 3:16-24

This one, in a more abstract way, perhaps, but, nevertheless,

27God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. 28'For in Him we live and move and have our being.'a As some of your own poets have said, 'We are His offspring.'b 29Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man's skill and imagination.

Acts 17

We are His, and because of the Love He has given us, we hopefully will give that Love to God and those we encounter. It is the call of each of us, I believe, to do so.

D.

[marie glen]

Amen!! :HeartThrob: :cloud9:

It's so awesome to know that not only does love win, but it wins and will win concerning every single being, every single rational creature He has created. To just think about all the people we can love.. and all the people we can forever love after God has become "all in all".. And also, I think there is this
"The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them. (Isaiah 11:6)

Love is going to totally rule. And that's paradise. Enduring paradise, because He is so very, very wise.
Ty! For the very inspiring scriptures!