Love is a beautiful thing but we often get it so mixed up
and twisted with our own interpretations and life experiences that we often
lose focus on what the word and glory of the experience.
Anyone who has ever spent any amount of time with me or with
me and my former partner would know that I do not speak the words “I love you”
unless I truly mean them. After I was blessed with a bout of cancer, I say
blessed because it taught me to slow down and really look at and appreciate all
the things I have been given…like life, family and love. I don’t say the words
I love you because I know that they have weight attached to them; By the word
weight I mean they have a very spiritual essence and sanctity attached. Our
use, overuse and our hedonism tends to cheapen them. I don’t ever want to be at
a place in my life where I take love for granted.
I am at a place in my life where I have once again been
blessed to examine the Biblical essence of love. What does it mean to love? I
know in 1 Corinthian 13:13 love is of
the highest priority...13 And now
these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is
love.
I strive to make love a priority in my life and with the
person I am attracted to…I try to keep in mind that people are not always used
to experiencing a demonstrative love and it could be somewhat unsettling.
Think about the passage in Corinthians for a minute…love is
a priority over faith and hope because love, when we extract our baggage from
it, when it’s at its purest form, love is eternal….I feel this in the core of
my being and this is why I don’t take the words lightly.
Love is the reasonable amount of service for God’s
grace Luke 7:42 42 Neither
of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now
which of them will love him more?” …Love
covers a multitude and there is no value to anything that is covered by love…you
don’t owe anyone and you can’t buy anyone…love is love is love
Love is a stabilizing factor in our lives Ephesians 3:17 17 so
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you,
being rooted and established in love,
Have you ever prayed for anyone in a relationship? Not
because you wanted something in return but just because you want the best for
them and in them finding their best they give their best….
Love is so beautiful and we can enjoy the beauty of it when
we keep it in Godly perspective. I strive to understand it and live it in its
true meaning. I pray that I will never again allow anyone or anything take my
focus off what love should mean/be
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