Thought 284
True Love
Read 1 Corinthians 13.
The following is a
definition came to me one day during school. I had been thinking about love and
how to describe what it was to a group of young men I was sharing with on lust
the previous week. You see, we had talked a lot about what lust was, but I hit
a roadblock on how to describe love. Thus, as I was doing some homework or
something one day, I had an idea and grabbing a piece of paper and a pen this “definition”
is what came out of it. May those who read be given some insight into what Love
is and don’t give me credit—give the credit to Jesus who by His gift of the
Holy Spirit has taught me these things.
Love cannot be adequately defined by a modern dictionary or Hollywood, it is not an emotion or
bubbly feeling, but rather, a patient, sacrificial person whom God created to
be of the utmost importance in our Christian lives.
It is an action founded in Christ, of whom
our perfected example lays. It overlooks age, race, color, and social and
economic standings. It corrects, reaches, instructs, teaches, and touches the
very soul. It looks past hate and pride – of which pride is forth most its
enemy; since every sin somehow is stemmed from that wicked root.
Love is thereby adequately defined by 1
Corinthians 13 which declares Love to be patient, merciful; it is an action of
sorts, the opposite of hate, and above all the Divine Nature of Providence and
starkly, uncompromisingly opposite to lust, hate, emotion, and pleasure – which
almost invariably stem from pride. [Note for clarity: when
emotion and pleasure are mentioned to stem from pride, it is referring to the
emotional pleasure of those who partake of sex outside of God’s condition of
marriage because they claim that they were “so in love” that they had to
express it in that way.]
Love is simply the absence of pride resulting
in an “others’ oriented” mindset, seated upon Christ and worked out with
healthy fear and trembling (which is due to the fact that Love is our true
calling).
Side
note:
Humility,
Contentment, and Affection all stem from this ‘odd’ four letter word – that is,
L-O-V-E.
