Now Hollywood wants to make you think they know what love is. But I´m a tell you what true love is. Love is not what you see in the movies. Its not the ecstasy its not what you see in that scene you know what I mean? I´m telling you right now true love is sacrifice. Love is thinking about others before you think about yourself love is selfless not selfish. Love is God and God is love. Love is when you lay down your life for another whether for your brother your mother your father or your sister its even laying down your life for your enemies that´s unthinkable but think about that. Love is true. Think.
Love is patient love is kind. It does not envy it does not boast it is not proud. It is not rude it is not self-seeking it is not easily angered it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects always trusts always hopes it always perseveres.
Love never fails. Love is everlasting its eternal it goes on and on it goes beyond time love is the only thing that will last when you die but ask the question why? Do you have love?
There is no greater love than this than he who lays down his life for his friends. Now are you willing to lay down your life for your friends? You´re probably willing to lay down your life for your mother your father or your best friends but are you willing to lay down your life for even those that hate you? I´m going to tell you who did that the definition of love is Jesus Christ. He is love. The nails in his hands the thorns in his brow hanging on a cross for your sin my sins that is LOVE he died for you and me while we still hated him that is love. God is true love and if you don´t know this love now is the time to know perfect love.
Hi Mooly, nice page. This one made me think of something I heard recently that I think is probably true of most human interactions involving love, which I think reveals a practical application of you post by approaching it from the opposite angle. What is the opposite of love? The initial reaction of most would be "hate." But the saying I heard recently is that it's not hate, it's indifference, and I think there's some truth to it.
ReplyDeleteAs I considered it, I think it seems that those we hate the most are usually those whom we've loved and by whom we were hurt somehow. An expectation disappointed by sin. We feel justified and indignant in our anger at our selfish, introspective pain and take this out on the offending party through hate. But for these people we at least care enough to bother to hate. We've given them a place in our minds and even hearts as we dwell on them, and we want to show them somehow what we feel by retaliating or belittling them to others. Deep inside though, for these people, we mostly wish that we would get along and maybe even love them as brothers, sisters, lovers, neighbors.
I think that perhaps it's a bit convicting to think about how we are to act if the opposite of love is actually indifference and apathy. To whom are we apathetic in our lives? Homeless? Unbelievers? Co-workers? We don't care enough to hate them. To those we hate, at least maybe we'd care enough to interact with them. But if we admit our hate to ourselves at all, most of us hate only a few or one group or another. How many people do we encounter toward whom we are completely apathetic though? Hundreds, maybe, on a daily basis. If that's really the opposite of the love of Jesus we ought to be showing, it's quite humbling.