I was riding in the car the other day and someone asked me how do you know what love is? It's kind of funny... I don't think I know the answer to that question. I then explained how I think loving people and being in love with someone is two totally different things... I think it is a lot easier to love someone than it is to be in love with someone. I think to be in love with someone you have to have that physical attraction that I don't think you have to have to love someone. When I really thought about it I thought have I really been in love before? I mean I thought I had... but I don't think so. To be in love with someone is a big step... as a 17-18 year old there is no way I knew what that was...
Anyway to love someone is really easy to me... I love a lot of people. I love every single one of my friends and would do anything in my power for them.
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." -John 15:13
Our society overuses the word love and I think it's a really bad thing! Don't tell someone you love them if you don't... don't say you love something just because you really like it. Really like and love are two different things.
So... with all my doubts I turn to the Bible because love is in the Bible a lot... and God knows what love is. So here's what I think best describes what love truly is.
Love is... our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ dying on the cross to save the WHOLE world's sins.
"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." -Hebrews 12:2
would you do that for someone you love?
Love is... God's grace.
"God's grace exists to point people to love like no other love they have ever known. A love outside the lines." that gives me the chills... do you know a love outside the lines?
Love is... the love Christ has for us... never ending, constant, always love.
"We try to live so that He will love us, rather than because He has already loved us." -Lloyd Ogilvie
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 truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. LOVE NEVER FAILS. 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
kind of makes you re-think how much you "love" someone
I think I have a long way to go...
So... let's love for Christ and for one another... Let's just love one another, or try to, as Christ has loved us.
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." -John 13:34-35
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