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.
Definition of Love :
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.
