"God is Love", but how do we define it? The American Heritage Dictionary defines love as "an intense affection for another person based on familial or personal ties". Often this "intense affection" stems from a sexual attraction for that other person. We love other people, or we say we love other people, when we are attracted to them and when they make us feel good. Notice that a key phrase in the dictionary definition of love is the phrase "based on". This phrase implies that we love conditionally; in other words, we love someone because they fulfill a condition that we require before we can love them. How many times have you heard or said, "I love you because you are cute;" or "I love you because you take good care of me;" or "I love you because you are fun to be with"?
Our love is not only conditional, it is also mercurial. We love based on feelings and emotions that can change from one moment to the next. The divorce rate is extremely high in today's society because husbands and wives supposedly stop loving one another-or they "fall out of love". They may go through a rough patch in their marriage, and they no longer "feel" love for their spouse, so they call it quits. Evidently, their marriage vow of "till death do us part" means they can part at the death of their love for their spouse rather than at their physical death.
Can anyone really comprehend "unconditional" love? It seems the love that parents have for their children is as close to unconditional love as we can get without the help of God's love in our lives. We continue to love our children through good times and bad, and we don't stop loving them if they don't meet the expectations we may have for them. We make a choice to love our children even when we consider them unlovable; our love doesn't stop when we don't "feel" love for them. This is similar to God's love for us, but as we shall see, God's love transcends the human definition of love to a point that is hard for us to comprehend.
God's love is not hard to comprehend, its perfectly clear, I just think its hard to apply because we want to feel how we want to feel. I dont believe in falling out of love, reasons being you can't fall out of all. if you fall out then you was never truly in love in the first place, how can you love someone but you cant bear when their sinful nature kicks in, you might be thinking what about when someone cheats will u stay with them is it K (noooonooo) its not k and personally i don't know if I would but I wont stop loving that person any less than before. I really think that the only way someone can understand love is to first have that relationship with God, there he teaches you infinite love. if I cant have that infinite love that God has for me for someone I rather not love at all because its in vain. love is not a game and definetly not an ad. good work once again
ReplyDeleteThanks . the only thing I can say is the one I already said God is love and love is God... When we love someone we love God and when we continue to love We continue to love God.
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