Skip to main content

What is Love?


Genuine Love

“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstances”
1 Corinthians 13:4-7

When you ask different people from different walks of life with different beliefs if they know what love is and how to love, almost a hundred percent would probably say yes. But do we really know what love is? There have been a lot of definitions depending on a person’s perspective of love. But one thing is common to almost every person here on Earth; they choose who to love and what to love in a person.

In order for us to learn how to love our neighbors, we must first know what love really is. And the best way to understand it is to seek for the one who started the love here on Earth, the author of everything and where Love really came from, God. And this is God’s definition of Love. Love gives forgiveness, patience, kindness, truth, justice and seeing the best in every person. It is loyal at any cost, believing in a person no matter what. Love does not allow jealousy, envy, pride, arrogant spirit, selfishness, rudeness, self-centeredness, irritability and grudges.

Now, ask you yourself, is the love you feel right now genuine? Is it according to the standard of the Lord who first loved you though you are a sinner?

Is your love genuine for a friend you cannot forgive? Is it still Love if you can’t even be patient when you wait? You said you love your friend yet you judge his/her every bit of imperfection instead of seeing the best in him/her? You love your brother and sister yet you are jealous of him/her? You said you cannot choose from your two girlfriends because you love both of them, is that love? Cheating?  You are arrogant and self-centered at home yet you tell everyone that you love your family?

Let’s check ourselves. It is fine to commit mistakes but to continue doing the same mistake is already a sin. We are created by a God of Love. Everything the Lord plans for our lives is only because of one great thing, Love. Right now, you can be saved from eternal damnation because of what? Still, LOVE. We are receiving so much love from the very first breath we made when we were born. We’ve got to give it away. We’ve got to share it. Share it right. Let us learn how to love truly because we, too, are loved genuinely by the Father in heaven who generously gives His forgiveness whenever we ask for it. Spread the Love! 
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Loving your Enemy

Matthew 5:43-44 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. The first step to love our enemies is to pray for them. Jesus said, ‘pray for those who persecute you.’ If we pray for our enemies, something mysterious happens inside us. It is like pouring icy cold water to your sizzling emotions. When we continue to pray goodness for our enemies everyday, one day you’ll realize that your anger has gone. And once we have removed our anger, we can start doing good things for them such as: Forgiving and forgetting about their sins against us. Forgiveness is an act of the will of the heart. And Christian forgiveness means that when we forgive, we also forget. Love keeps no record of wrongs. Reaching out to them. We do not just forgive our enemies, we also take steps to be closer to them. Real forgiveness demands restoration of relationship. Just like how Go...
Post a Comment
Read more

Worry

Worry makes us do things against God's plan. We try to disobey the Lord because we think that He's not doing anything. When we worry, it lessens our TRUST in God and we question His ability to keep what He says. And then we try to solve our problems on our own. We are leaning on our own understanding. We do what we think will be the solution. And the result will always be worse. Do not worry and trust God. Do not feel insecure because even though sometimes we don't see and feel God's actions in our problems, knowing that the Lord is with us is already the highest security we can have. He'll do something, just obey, wait and see.
Post a Comment
Read more

Boredom

It's something you do when you're bored. Plus I believe, a girl can never be completely beautiful when she doesn't know how to be ugly. Hurray!
Post a Comment
Read more