Love is such a difficult topic. We talk about it, sing about it, make movies but it mostly remains in a desired inexperienced realm. Oftentimes there are portrayals of love and the notion of not being able to live with someone is expressed. They would do anything to keep them in your life …isn’t this where crazy stalkers come from? Is that real love? I thought true love was altruistic. I can’t live without you love seems more about me than the other person. So, what gives? We call that love yet, is that Biblical love? Is it even a form of love at all? The answer is kind of, it’s a love for us and herein lies the problem… I will say that without God’s help it is impossible to have true Love.
To love in a pure and altruistic way requires something beyond human ability. “3 This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.” Ecc. 9:3 NIV. Also see, “9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? Jer. 17:9 NIV. Our own hearts will deceive us, and we willingly believe what our hearts have said. Will not our heart tell us exactly what we want to hear? What we do in our flesh is not love for others, it is only with God’s help that we are able to love. For good things cannot be found in us and true love is good and comes from God, “18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.” Romans 7:18 NIV.
The first step in having true love is you must be a child of God. If Jesus is not your personal savior, you cannot find true love for others. For God is love and only in Him will we find the love we seek, and only then can we share that love with others. Love is the greatest expression because it is the greatest call in our relationship to God.
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