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Faith, Love, And Love : The Values Of Love In Life

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One can search high and low to discover the love in life. Many people turn to drugs, sexual encounters, or other idols to fill the void that God placed in their hearts. This is folly because God created that empty pit so that only He can fill it. We have no worth or purpose apart from Him. Jesus Christ commands us to love God and our fellow human being. I would argue that in order to love well, we first must have correct beliefs that are grounded in Scriptural principles. Love is never easy, but it is much more precious than gold once it is attained. To follow Christ’s commands fully, we must first love God with all of our hearts, minds, and souls. In order to authentically work toward fulfilling Jesus’s command to love properly, our lives must first firmly rest in all three of the theological virtues: faith, hope, and love. Proper love doesn’t come inborn in us. The only source of love is found outside of our own being.
Faith determines what our map looks like. Once we have faith in something, we need to decide how to draw our point of view of the world. Faith calls us to develop a worldview, which then develops our entire map of life. Every person must have faith in something. Before one can succeed in a love relationship of any kind, their priorities must be set in proper order. Their map should be correctly drawn. As Dr. Miller phrased it in common meeting, “We must believe well in order to love well.” The couple described in “Popular Mechanics” had very badly drawn

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