Love is the 1 WORD in the entire universe that everyone wants to define but rarely understands
Love is the 1 WORD that people long for their entire lives, can’t live without and grow up trying to obtain
Love is.. you … love is me.. love is my lil cousin Bradley when he’s hugging my neck.. Love is birds chirping..Love is a simple melody.. Love is inside of each one of us
But what is love? How do you define love in a simple definition? I propose that in order to Love you must know God because God is love.
Contrary to popular belief Love is not an emotion, it isn’t the jitters you get when someone you admire walks into the room, love isn’t about kissing and hugging and “making love”. Love is a personification of God’s love shown to us.
The bible shows us exactly what love is in
1 Corinthians 13
If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
This is the definition of love. So often we get caught up on the “feelings” of love and not the actual understanding of love.
I’ve been “in love” a few times, and it was always about feeling, until recently. I was at my lowest point, and Love found me. I had to have a surgery, Love was there. Love came to church with me, Love listened to me, Love encouraged me, Love understood my flaws. This time Love was real. I gave Love my last and love didn’t even know it..But then I lost Love.. No I didn’t fall out of Love, but Love left me…As quickly as I found Love, Love decided they didn’t want to Love anymore…Yes it hurt and will probably hurt for years to come because Love was good to me, and it wasn’t an emotion but rather a personification of Love that was always in my heart.
Thing about Love is, its not as simple to some as it is to others. Yes, I’ve been hurt and I’ve wanted to not love. But I know that God is the giver of LOVE and the taker of all things and every pure and perfect thing comes from GOD! I embrace Love because I encompass Love!
In the vows that people make when they get married it never speaks of emotions or feelings it speaks directly to agape love:
“To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death.”
The vows are a promise between God, and the couple. That regardless of the emotions either are encountering that they will ALWAYS be there for each other. Do you love your mate that much? To be with him/her after he/she has lost everything, to be with them and ALWAYS support them? That’s what love is, LOVE IS ALWAYS there, Love is giving, love is the maker of all things new!Love can only grow in an atmosphere of honesty.
All anyone wants in life is love. So the next time you tell someone you love them, make sure you understand what love is and how powerful true love is. I pray that God sends you real love and I pray that he sends it to me too!
I love this. Some people correlate love to sex or tangiable items, this shows there is really one love and that is god. Hands down. Let the church say Amen.