this question hangs heavy in my mind often. its a hard concept to grasp, to be entirely honest. i know what love is not, that is the easy part, but where do the grey areas end? where do the lines begin, where does the doubt fade to black?
life is hard, trials are trying on you, and pain is sometimes unbearable. Love is always at the center of it though, the ever constant companion to suffering. its says in romans chapter 5 that we are to rejoice in our sufferings because it produces good character; and in turn character produces hope. and the hope of God will always satisfy. How can love be birthed from suffering? well, simply enough God allows suffering into our lives so we can learn to trust him, because only when we trust him wholeheartedly can we experience his unsurpassed love and peace. Love is funny. it is often characterized by things like "feelings" and "emotions". i believe that loves power should not be described as such things. love is hindered when you fail to grasp that it is more than a good feeling or happiness, because it is so much more. love is a righteous anger, a consuming fire, love is an act of sacrifice, love is unselfishness, love is a harsh word of correction, love is a hand to the back of your head when your being a fool, love is a belligerent friend rebuking you for your stupidity, love is punishment for disobedience. all too often love is overly romanticized and it takes on this mushy sickly looking heart full of "feelings" and "fate". people expect true love to always be a perpetual state of joy and happiness and they are discontent when they fail to find it. they fail to realize that God is love, and he is the truest love, his sacrifice and grace are the truest form of love you will ever find. his love is many things, but God shows his love the most when he tears you down. 2 CORINTHIANS12:9 "But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me." Love is so much more than what we claim it is. all too often we take love and stuff it into a birdcage named FEELING that is a hundred times too small. love is best left unhindered by our feeble minds, love is so much more than we will ever be able to grasp. if you want to experience the truest love you must learn to let go. release. give to God what is Gods and the rest will come through his grace. "Delight yourself in the LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart" Psalm 37:4.
i will tell you what love is, 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-12 "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, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears." Love is GOD אלוהים
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