Love what is love?
The whole month of February is national love month and it is also the month that has the holiday valentines day which is a whole day just for celebrating love, but even with a whole month celebrating love how come not many people really know what love is? I'm not talking about the "I love pizza" love or the "I really love that sweater" love, but true love. In this and the 11 following posts I hope to explain what love is and let you discover what kind of love is true love.
True love is a crazy love that is sometimes really hard to understand, so the best way to start out will be with a few definitions on what love is.
1. a fond or tender feeling.
2.a strong or passionate affection for a person of the opposite gender.
3.a strong liking.
4.a person who is loved.
5.a kind or benevolence for someone.
6.a reverent devotion.
Now that you've seen the definitions of love we'll go more into dept with what each one of these definitions mean.
1. Love is a fond or tender feeling.
Being fond is showing love by showing affection in some way such as romance or in loyalty towards someone. Now tenderness has a few different definitions. The first is pain, love often inflicts pain in the heart, as in a break up between boyfriend and girlfriend, but also in sympathy when a loved one is sick or battling something such as cancer, or the pain you feel when your loved one is hurting in a physical or spiritual sense such as a broken leg or going through a spiritual trial. The second is gratifying to the touch or such as gentleness, like the comforting words, or a husband kissing his wife or to comfort someone when their sick or in pain. When a little kid falls down and scraps their knee the child's mother runs to comfort the child with soothing words and often a bandage to help the kid through the pain and why does the mother do this? because she loves the child. The last thing in this definition of love is love through submission as a loyalty to another then yourself, or in other words completely giving yourself over to something or someone such as giving yourself over to God, submission is not because of weakness but because of complete love.
2.Love is a strong passionate affection for a person of the opposite gender.
This is a kind of love a husband and wife feel towards one another or an engaged to get married couple feels towards each other. It is a deep emotion of tender devotion of love mixed with friendly qualities towards each other with controlled emotions.
3.Love is a strong liking.
This is a kind of love you can have towards anyone, for a boyfriend and girlfriend it is a fond attraction between comparable or similar pleasures, or a man or boy trying to persuade a girl that he likes to be his girlfriend. In other cases it is taking pleasure by enjoying or preferring a particular inanimate object, like music, a certian type of food, to favor something more over another. The last would be the grace of God that he shows in high concentration which is favor; which is something what Christians need to be an example of by showing grace towards all, which shows Jesus' love for us all.
4.Love is a person who is loved.
This is normally a nickname for someone who is in love, but it really something every person can be called. In a marriage a love is both husband and wife with the relationship they share. Now the category every person falls under is in Christ Jesus for he loves us all, so we also are his love his beloved. John3:16-17 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
5.Love is a kind feeling or benevolence for something.
This kind of love is an undeserving love, a selfless love where often one will give up their own likings or preferences for the one they love; like someone who's married giving up a type of food they like because their spouse doesn't like it or is allergic to it, or someone giving up old habits for the one they love like squeezing the tube of toothpaste at the top instead of in the middle, or giving up something that is unpleasing to God like sin. Another definition for this kind of love is a kind sensation or emotion, an openness towards others or being transparent towards others, or in other words being real with others, to show who you really are, not pretending. Another definition of this kind of love is dedication to the welfare of others; or in other words being generous of charitable, it is voluntary and kind and full of forgiveness, wanting others to have the emotion of happiness. By being charitable, it is not for self profit nor for the thrill of being charitable, but it is selfless love. When Jesus went to the cross he had such a dedication for the welfare of me and you, that he selflessly gave himself openly to forgive us so we could one day have the benefit of Heaven and seeking his face, that we did not pay for, but Jesus paid for us with his life, he could have easily got down from the cross but he loved us so much, he had and still does have selfless love and is willing to share his home with all of us.
6.Love is a reverent devotion.
Being reverently devoted is a love that is based on commitment and loyalty to someone. This love also has many different definitions like many of the other kinds. The first is a love for your home country, by being loyal having a dedication to your country by pledging your allegiance or by having patriotism. Another definition of this love is in marriage, it is an adoring fond affection towards a spouse, it is observant continually wanting to learn more about each other; committed, loyal, steadfast, through thick and thin; it is trusting in each others dedication to one another, that couples make on their wedding day as they say their vows to stick together no matter what. The last kind is the devotion one has for God, having a relationship with him through prayer, worship, and listening to what he has to say, it is being a committed disciple or an apostle continually being committed, affectionate, trusting and wanting to know more about him as he wants to know more about me and you.
1 Corinthians13:1-13
"1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and knowledge, and though I have faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have
not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth
not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked
thinketh no evil, 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail, whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."
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