Love a little
As I was sitting in my room thinking "what can I possibly write in my blog tomorow" ,the answer just came up in conversation,like really ,as a matter of fact it was the conversation and as if to cement the idea I saw a post from a young lady on facebook that really made me want to write this post.I am going to talk about love "AGH not that again!" may be some of your first thoughs,but I really feel this is an issue that needs some addressing.
I will start by stating that love is NOT an emotion.I believe that because so many people think and believe that love is something you feel, they have soooo many "love" problems.You know the feeling you get when you are with you boyfriend/girlfriend or crush?well sorry to burst your bubble that is not love.It is simply you getting high on your own hormones(don't believe me? google answers all questions).I constantly see, exp on social networks, tons of love declarations,how people want to spend forever with that special someone and tha a few months down the line, forever seems to have arrived.People go on and on about how they love their partners, but I see that love only last as long as the buzz is around.
8 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. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.'
My favourate verse is that love is not self seeking.So often that is what I see in people's claims of love.When you love someone the "me" element no longer exist,there is no manipulation,emotional abuse ,obsession.Love is going from the point of "what can I get" to "how much more can I give".
I will continue on this topic tomorrow as I have just begun and there is so much to still unwrap.This was simply a taste of where I am going and to get you thinking on what love really means to you.Is your love relationships really about the other person or is it based on how you feel and what you can get out of it?
I will start by stating that love is NOT an emotion.I believe that because so many people think and believe that love is something you feel, they have soooo many "love" problems.You know the feeling you get when you are with you boyfriend/girlfriend or crush?well sorry to burst your bubble that is not love.It is simply you getting high on your own hormones(don't believe me? google answers all questions).I constantly see, exp on social networks, tons of love declarations,how people want to spend forever with that special someone and tha a few months down the line, forever seems to have arrived.People go on and on about how they love their partners, but I see that love only last as long as the buzz is around.
The world has completely skewed our views on what love is;sex,feelings,butterflies.None of which is the truth.We as christians need to look at the word of God to find the true definition of love.
I really love 1 Corinthians 13 'If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.8 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. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.'
My favourate verse is that love is not self seeking.So often that is what I see in people's claims of love.When you love someone the "me" element no longer exist,there is no manipulation,emotional abuse ,obsession.Love is going from the point of "what can I get" to "how much more can I give".
I will continue on this topic tomorrow as I have just begun and there is so much to still unwrap.This was simply a taste of where I am going and to get you thinking on what love really means to you.Is your love relationships really about the other person or is it based on how you feel and what you can get out of it?
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