1st off i want to say that i know this is a controversial and touchy topic, my intent is not too offend anyone but if being that this happens i apologize in advance, if we can't help each other get an understanding then we will simply agree to disagree, i would love to hear you opinions question comments or whatever you believe to be true & Just remember that... I love you!!!
The notoriously infamous affectionate vastly interpretational question..This one question no one seems to have an answer for, no one seems to concretely define. The question that will leave you lost in past emotions, in future expectation & current ecstasy! Ya know i wonder why this question is so open to everyones view? & why that view is so hazy even distorted? (another episode)..well hopefully in this short excerpt we can get some clarity...
What is Love? Love is pain, love is passion, love is sacrifice, love is a strong connection, love is unconditional! Many are correct these are all characteristics of Love & how they can make one feel & what they can make one do, but not quite love itself. Given the time & asking the right question these definitions will contradict themselves when placed in a broad category such as love directed toward certain people. Then we end in a conclusion that just stats there are many different types of Love. Well how do you know which Love it is that you are Loving? How do you know you love someone? When someone says i Love you what does it really mean? So is there a difference in Loving someone & being in Love? Whats the difference between brotherly motherly friendship spouse & regular love? If we had one universal/general definition i believe it would change people's perception on well,..everything! Love would not be some nebulous thing but something we can knowingly pursue after & know that we have achieved it!
When people try to focus in on love its very difficult; when you can't describe a thought, you use a emotion, when you can't describe an emotion you use a feeling, when you can't describe a feeling you use an action. I believe Love is blatantly an action and an attitude, a verb, not an emotion nor a feeling, but a barrage of characteristics one shows towards someone. Here me out ,these characteristic summed up in doing what is in best interest for that person. Love strictly is, & does. Love shouldn't change period. When people say I love you they are merely saying i emotion you, i affection you or have adoration towards you but the thing about that emotions change and are affected upon circumstances..! Thats why some Love with all their heart today & tomorrow they in someone elses face, thats how you fall in & out of love: people can't control love b/c likewise we cant control our emotions (but we can control what we do), so they say love is blind..its blind b/c it doesnt see, its to busy feeling!
So why is this so important? for many reasons (once again another episode)...so What is my definition of Love? well i cant take credit for my definition b/c i stole it! I once read it in The Greatest book i have ever read in my LIFE!, that love is..God (1 John 4v8). God is love, It doesnt say God has love, will love, can love, or even does love-It says God IS love. Its the very make-up of his character who he is, what he does! God is not changing. He is the same today as he was yesterday & forever more thats pretty concrete to me! So to know God is to know love! 1 Corinthians 13v4-7 describe key characteristics of Love & ultimately God http://bit.ly/erSb8c There are 2 different kinds of love: its either Real Love or Not Love! simple & plain. Now i do agree that there are degrees to Love (how fervently you demonstrate you action towards another) but ultimately it has the same origin, we must not get it confused. Because if you have the love of the world the love of the father is not in you..thats word. & dont get it wrong just b/c God is love doesnt mean he can't hate something! To love righteousness is to hate evil..simple put to love God is to hate sin!
In this post modernistic society every one is open to their own interpretations. We live in a generation where truth can not be discovered, its only what works for you, (so they say) which is why our love is so throwed off. God gave us a command to Love. How can i love if love is a feeling..I can't "have feelings" for my enemies, yet if Love is a choice/an action, then i can choose to Love my enemies, i can choose to show these characteristics!
Love is SO broad i can literally write a book on it but i'd rather you just read the one thats already written about the greatest love of all! Romans 5v8 but God commended his love toward us that even while we were yet his enemies he died for us! so i pray along w/ others that you will be rooted and grounded in true love, & will be able to comprehend with all of God's family how long, how wide, how deep and how high the love of Christ is, which passes all understanding, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God!
Peace! & much love to ya!
The heart is the well spring of life. The one sacred place that needs to be guarded above all else. So many people have the misconception of love based soley on emotion. How many people can you count and how many broken homes can you find because the lust that created a new life was replaced for love. When infactuation is in high demand and the rush of being in "love" is wanted so so bad. Soul ties are then created causing strife and heartache that many times is so unrepairable. The problem is that many people give their hearts to people who dont deserve it. To people that have no clue as to how to take care of it and fully understand what it truly means to take care of someones heart. When you give it away you become so vulnerable and then trapped in something God never intended for you.Your dreams, desires and passion no longer exsists when its wrong. Thats why God created sex for marriage because majority of the time thats where it goes all wrong... where you become broken where you become a person you never thought you would become or a person you would never recognize. The one being that can teach us a perfect love is God because he created it. Love. and if you arent learning through him or find it in him you will only wind up being hurt over and over again and its a VICIOUS cycle and when the person who actually is right for you will be passed by because you wont even know what it looks like because those walls up way to high. Being fulfilled through God is the only way but you have to lose yourself first....
ReplyDeleteA friend once told me we were created with a void that only God can fill..anything other than God that we give our heart to is not able to fill that whole! Even in marriage we are to give our bodies but God has our heart..The thing about love is that it was something we were created to do, whatever we love we dont have a choice whether we love! its apart of us, we are wired to search for the fulfillment of love which is why we are to search for it in God! & the reason why its so easy to slip into idolatry replacing Gods position for everything else! ultimately everything else jus shows the value of Christ Love!
ReplyDelete“Love is pain, love is passion, love is sacrifice, love is a strong connection, love is unconditional!” I guess one could say love is versatile. It takes many forms and changes from person–to–person. I don’t think everyone would love a stranger the same way they would love a spouse or family member. Just like the love you have for a best friend [of the same sex] looks different than the love you have for your spouse [eh… I think your spouse should be your best friend so I had to throw “same sex” in that first thought lol]
ReplyDeleteNow you are absolutely right, love is a verb…it is an action, thus that old saying, “actions speak louder than words.” When you love someone, you often prove it by your actions. Sometimes you can go so many days without telling someone you love them because your actions are doing all the talking. I would give a scenario BUT, this is not my blog lol
I will say this, Love just IS… it is God, and it is an action. However, it has been perverted and twisted by that dirty dog Lucifer which is why so many people get hurt by the word “love,” but they don’t realize all they’ve been saying is, “I lust you so much,” “you don’t know how much I lust you,” “Oh yeah? Well show me you lust me.” That’s why it is imperative we go to the word of God everyday and search the scriptures for answers and examples of what love looks like John 5:39 ; Acts 17:11. Christ's love never fails. John 3:16 ~ John 15:1-27 :)
God Bless.
Much love,
♥Mari
I think this is soemthing you learn as you mature and grow older. When you are young...middle and high school...you go off of your peers and what is shown on tv to show you what is "suppose" to be love. But it's not until you mature and actually raise the question to yourself when you determine the truth. I also feel like as one grows up,they go off of what they grew up seeing in theirhousehold to decide for themselves what love is or not. Which is another reason why people are so throwed off about wha love "really" is!
ReplyDeleteSO TRUE!
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