What do you think about when you hear the word Love? Relationships? Chocolate? Red hearts? Sex? "I know this is love when i feel something that i have never felt before...". So if you have never been constipated before your chance for love may come in the form of a small pill, Imodium.
I belong to great fellowship of believers who meet once a week to just get to know how God wants us to live. We are currently going through a cool book on love called; “The Exploits of Love” by Eastwood Anaba. Many things that I'll post today are from that meeting and taken from that book.
Now really, what is love? If we slide over to 1 Corinthians 13 we will find the correct definition.
1 Corinthians 13: 4-7: "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, 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, and always perseveres."
Now for all of you whose girlfriends ask “How do you know you love me?” feel free to make them feel bad and quote these verses. Please do not add that she is annoying … Love is hard eh!
But on the serous side, looking at these verses we can find out that love is more of a character and less of a feeling. Often times we rely on the “feeling” side of love, but what happens when that “feeling” is gone, or if you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. Why should we limit our concept of love to relationships between guys and girls? It’s like having a big pie and only eating the crust. Everywhere we go love is being defined for us, if you don’t think so, what does “making love” mean? My point exactly. It’s about time we come up with our own REAL definition of love. Love is how we should treat everyone, not just the ONE.
In part 2 we’ll talk more about the dynamics of love and how to really love people, as well as many of the common misconceptions that love is tagged with.
Adios!
