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 Because it’s the month of February and Valentine’s is  just around the corner, let’s all meditate about LOVE. 

Throbbing hearts, special someone, different kind of feeling, Valentine’s Day.

These are the words we usually connect to the thought of Love. Whenever we try to define what love is, it usually just boil down to what we commonly feel or see.

Among all the definitions of love, how would you know if it’s the real one?

Love is a very broad idea yet it’s the strongest of them all. It can make a very big impact on our lives. It brings smiles and tears. It softens the hardened hearts. It brightens our gloomy days. It makes us be obedient and patient. It can make us fly and soar high.

On the other side of Love, there is Lust.

A sin.

The two words may seem synonymous. Based on the patterns of the world, when we feel something different in our system, we immediately think of it as love. We think that after love, we normally feel lust.

THAT’S DEFINITELY WRONG!

Lust is a feeling produced from our excessive selfish desires. Unexplainable as love but distinctly different from each other. It belongs to the seven deadly sins and is connected to all of it. From lust, you can experience anger, pride, greed and other sins. You will know if what you are feeling is only lust when you experience the other sins.

It obviously contradicts the definition of Love in the Bible.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 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. 

All the years I have been living in this earthly world, I learned that love is all about giving. It’s pouring out all of the abundance in your heart. It never expects, it never assumes, it just understands.

1 John 4:10

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 

The best example of that Love is God’s love to us. Did God ever expect something in return from us for His love? NONE. He just wanted us to believe in Him and accept Christ as our saviour. God’s love is unconditional. His love is what will complete our emptiness. His love endures forever. It’s the perfect thing an imperfect person could ever have.

LOVE = GOD

LUST = SIN

Love and lust will never be synonymous. Love is for God as Lust is for sin. God never sinned, only us. LOVe comes from abOVe while LUSt comes from US. (from our sinful nature).

Love is never about us or about our feelings deep inside. Rather, it’s all about God. It’s all about his sacrifice for our salvation.

Agape love = Selfless love

God is love and whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him (1 John 4:16). In this way we will never have to fear when judgment day comes, for love drives out fear. Love can overcome any obstacle and it never fears anything. Because when one fears, one doesn’t have love.

He loved us first and because of that we are ought to love others back. For God’s commandment is that we should love our brothers. If you love your brothers, you love God, if not, then you don’t love God. For anyone that doesn’t love what he can see, cannot love what he can’t see. (1 John 4:19-20)

So now, what is LOVE for you?

God bless! ♥