Post #60...let's celebrate with LOVE...

My thoughts from earlier but just now having time to post it...enjoy! :)

LOVES & HUGS,

Christina

What Love IS or What IS Love?                                                                                     October 2, 2010

Love. A great mystery, a word everyone spends a lifetime trying to grasp the fullness of. Love, what IS Love? We ask it, we answer it in our own way, we search the definition given by man, we search the bible. Who can answer such a word as LOVE? In all its greatness, in all its simplicity. What defines it, how can it be accurately captured? Who possesses such a pure form of such a rich word. Love. We want it, we want to feel it, we want to give it, we want to touch it, we want to embrace its very essence. Can depth, or height, or volume measure it? How than do we know it or understand it. LOVE. We look for what Love IS, but we fail to look for what IS Love…

1Corinthians 13:4-8 “Love is patient. Love is kind. Love isn't jealous. It doesn't sing its own praises. It isn't arrogant. It isn't rude. It doesn't think about itself. It isn't irritable. It doesn't keep track of wrongs. It isn't happy when injustice is done, but it is happy with the truth. Love never stops being patient, never stops believing, never stops hoping, never gives up. Love never comes to an end…”

We see what Love IS…so poetically defined. Search the scriptures on Love and find it everywhere. There are different kinds of Love that describe different facets in life. Still does that answer the seemingly bigger question…What IS Love? Are these two questions really one in the same or are there meanings vastly separate?

Love. Love. Love.

The answer is quite simple, however it will take you longer than a lifetime to fully understand its meaning. What can be so simple yet so complex? Love.

God IS Love. Do you know this Sunday School Scripture quoted so familiarly among many?

1John 4:7-12 “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.”

So simply put…God IS Love and it IS His Love for us that IS Love. If we desire to know Love, than we are to know God, and in our knowing His Love IS perfected in us, that we might Love as Love IS.