I'm on a quest... I want to know what love really is. I'm getting closer to The Answer all the time. I believe love is more than fuzzy feelings, lust, flattery, passion and making a public commitment. An old song used to say, "I wanna know what love is, I want you to show me". This is my prayer, "Lord, teach me what love REALLY is." 1 Corinthians 13 lays out what love is and how it behaves, "Love is not rude or puffed up, love believes all things, hopes all things- it chooses to see the best in others. Love does no harm and it never fails." 1 John 4:7, "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God. Anyone who doesn't love, doesn't know God, because God IS Love. The love of God was shown to the world, when God sent His only Son to die for us so that we might live through Him. And this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to pay for our sins. Sin is anything that makes us feel good, at the expense of someone's well-being. Beloved, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another. None of us have ever seen God; but if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us." God hates sin because of the way it ruins our health, drains our finances and breaks our hearts. But He loves sinners with unconditional passion few can comprehend. This is the kind of love I want to know more about. Help me, Lord and let me see others through Your eyes...
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
What Love Is...
I'm on a quest... I want to know what love really is. I'm getting closer to The Answer all the time. I believe love is more than fuzzy feelings, lust, flattery, passion and making a public commitment. An old song used to say, "I wanna know what love is, I want you to show me". This is my prayer, "Lord, teach me what love REALLY is." 1 Corinthians 13 lays out what love is and how it behaves, "Love is not rude or puffed up, love believes all things, hopes all things- it chooses to see the best in others. Love does no harm and it never fails." 1 John 4:7, "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God. Anyone who doesn't love, doesn't know God, because God IS Love. The love of God was shown to the world, when God sent His only Son to die for us so that we might live through Him. And this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to pay for our sins. Sin is anything that makes us feel good, at the expense of someone's well-being. Beloved, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another. None of us have ever seen God; but if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us." God hates sin because of the way it ruins our health, drains our finances and breaks our hearts. But He loves sinners with unconditional passion few can comprehend. This is the kind of love I want to know more about. Help me, Lord and let me see others through Your eyes...
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Love is corruption, destruction, weekness,dellusional, blindness if it is for excessiveness in anything particularly evil.
Love is soetimes glorified under the wrong light, wrong pretext,inaccurate context and over simplified.
Love has nothing to do with fuzziness,blushing, and butterflies. That is infatuation. It always is; even for something/someone you actually love.
Love is nothing in of itself. Love at best is a compound of devotion,compromise,patience,reliability, responsibility,trust, kindness, justice, and compassion. It does not matter in which proportions these elements exists, but , If anyone of it is missing; then it is not love.
You are right lady. God is certainly known through His attributes, and we must have firm believe in all His attributes. Among His attributes are :
1. The God
2. The Compassionate
3. The Merciful
4. The King/Sovereign
5. The Holy
6. The Source of Peace
7. The Giver of Faith
8. The Overall Protector
9. The Strong
10. The Almighty
11. The Majestic
12. The Creator
13. The Maker
14. The Fashioner
15. The Great Forgiver
16. The Dominant
17. The Bestower
18. The Provider
19. The Opener, The Reliever
20. The All-Knowing
21. The Restrainer, The Withholder
22. The Extender
23. The Humbler
24. The Exalter
25. The Empowerer
26. The Humiliator
27. The All-Hearing, The Hearer
28. The All-Seeing
29. The Judge
30. The Just
31. The Kindly One
32. The Gracious, The Aware
33. The Clement, The Forbearing
34. The Mighty
35. The Forgiving
36. The Grateful, The Appreciative
37. The High, The Sublime
38. The Great
39. The Preserver
40. The Protector, The Guardian, The Feeder, The Sustainer
41. The Reckoner
42. The Sublime One
43. The Bountiful, The Gracious
44. The Watcher, The Watchful
45. The Responsive, The Hearkener
46. The Infinite, The All-Embracing
47. The Wise
48. The Loving
49. The Glorious
50. The Resurrector
51. The Witness
52. The True
53. The Advocate
54. The Most Strong
55. The Firm
56. The Patron
57. The Praiseworthy
58. The Numberer
59. The Commencer
60. The Restorer
61. The Giver of Life
62. The One Who Gives Death
63. The Living One
64. The Self-Subsisting
65. The Perceiver
66. The One
67. The Independent
68. The Powerful
69. The Dominant
70. The Giver
71. The Retarder
72. The First
73. The Last
74. The Manifest
75. The Hidden
76. The Governor
77. The High Exalted
78. The Righteous
79. The Relenting
80. The Forgiver
81. The Avenger
82. The Compassionate
83. The Ruler of the Kingdom
84. The Lord of Majesty and Bounty
85. The Equitable
86. The Gatherer, The Collector
87. The Self-Sufficient
88. The Enricher
89. The Bestower
90. The Withholder
91. The Propitious
92. The Distresser
93. The Light
94. The Guide
95. The Eternal
96. The Everlasting
97. The Heir
98. The Guide to the Right Path
99. The Patient
Love isnt sex. Its much more or everyone who ever sleeps together would still be together. Love can be very satisfying without sex. Parents love children and Freinds love each other but that doesnt mean they have to do intercourse together. Its good to question what love is. As you have said before God IS love.
Love makes sex way better, otherwise it's just gettin' it on. Love makes everything better.
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