The Answer to all
questions is Love, But…
…What is love?
The subtle manipulation of
patterns and life styles through the media has increased deception at an
exponential rate since the beginning of civilization. My first experiences of
this are only from my short time in this life. So, I will begin with only the
last four decades, since those are the times I have experiences from.
Songs and movies from the
twentieth century revolved around love, and especially the feeling of love. They inundated culture so completely that people
felt love for and towards everything and everyone, eventually confusing real
love with the media produced version of it, worldly love—disposable love.
Finally, in the twenty-first
century, we have become numb to any love—to the point that many even reject it
completely.
Despair, rejection, and doubt
result from the loss of love. The loss of real love, everlasting love. And,
once worldly love has been completely defeated, God's love will be tossed out
as just another version of the indulgent self-serving loves of cultural whim.
Jesus calls his people his bride,
to show that his love is not simply a human feeling or emotion. Just like
earthly marriage was meant to be, love is a work in progress. Jesus chooses
every second of every day to love us. He does not feel like loving us one day
and then feel like hating us another day. While we were still sinners—while we
were still rejecting him—Christ died for us.
Real love is when everything that
you want and desire is completely and selflessly for the welfare and needs of
another. It is and always has been easy for one to love themselves, but to truly
love someone else, with the willingness even to die for them—not to kill for
them, that is something else entirely—is the hardest and most important thing in
the universe.
Love your neighbor as you love
yourself is to love God by
loving what he loves the most—you.
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