What is love?
What is love? How do we define it? When I was a bit younger than I am now, I thought that love was that tingly feeling in my stomach. Maybe it was the desire to be with someone every moment of every day. As I grow in my feelings, I know that what I felt then was a small shadow of what I feel now. Love is not about how I feel. It's not about what I want. It's about my desire, no, need, to sacrifice for someone else.
Is love letting someone use your couch, or is it giving up your bed?
Let me explain. A married couple was having problems. This couple had two female friends. The first friend offered the wife the use of her couch if the wife needed to get away from the house. The second friend came to stay with the married couple for several weeks to try to help them get through their problems, even though the couple lived quite far away from the friend's work.
The first friend was showing a certain amount of love, but the second proved her love a thousand times over.
In today's installment of My Utmost For His Highest, Oswald Chambers writes this: "If what we call love doesn't take us beyond ourselves, it is not really love."
That is the true difference between love and lust or love and greed. Love gives; lust and greed take.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son . . ." God loved, so He gave.
What is the evidence of our love for one another? It is an emotion that demands evidence, for it is not an emotion that can be contained. It cannot be hidden, for it is something that needs to be expressed in sacrifice.
-Paul Lytle, guitar
Is love letting someone use your couch, or is it giving up your bed?
Let me explain. A married couple was having problems. This couple had two female friends. The first friend offered the wife the use of her couch if the wife needed to get away from the house. The second friend came to stay with the married couple for several weeks to try to help them get through their problems, even though the couple lived quite far away from the friend's work.
The first friend was showing a certain amount of love, but the second proved her love a thousand times over.
In today's installment of My Utmost For His Highest, Oswald Chambers writes this: "If what we call love doesn't take us beyond ourselves, it is not really love."
That is the true difference between love and lust or love and greed. Love gives; lust and greed take.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son . . ." God loved, so He gave.
What is the evidence of our love for one another? It is an emotion that demands evidence, for it is not an emotion that can be contained. It cannot be hidden, for it is something that needs to be expressed in sacrifice.
-Paul Lytle, guitar
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Comment by tobymacfan on October 8, 2008 at 5:01pm - That is all very good. I know what love is since loves come from God since God is love now you know :)
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Comment by Stephanie on October 8, 2008 at 11:19am - hey i really like what you wrote, i think it is very true. what the second friend did was great i wonder how many people would do that or be like the first friend who took the easy way out. another peep here wrote a blog about how taking the easy way out can loose some of the exitement of life. i am so happy we have myccm to connect with christian friends. may God bless you and i wish you a great day.
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