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
Especially within a society such as ours, which distorts love into lust, the ability to recognize and display the gift of love is essential. Selfish love, which is so inherent to humanity, inhibits God from acting in our lives, blinding us from experiencing His presence and eternal joy. It is so easy to look for pleasure and love in self satisfaction. However, the path to lasting happiness is not found through instant gratifications, but in the grueling practice of living a life full of
Men and women throughout the ages have desired to love others the way the greatest commandment instructs us to. However, due to our sinful nature, overshadowed by the fear of death and our limited physical and emotional vulnerabilities, the love we should have for one another turns into controlling one another, so that we have power and are in control. Instead of giving, we want. Instead of serving, we demand our rights. And scriptures like Matthew 5:48, “Be perfect, as your Father in heaven in perfect” can be frustrating
‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. The second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two precepts hang all the law and the prophets’ (Mathew 22.37, 38, 39, 40). ‘By this all men know that they are my disciples, if ye have love one to another’ (John 13.35) …’He who loveth God loveth his brother also’ (1 John 4.21) …’If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar’ (1 John 4.20) …The first thing that takes our attention is the saying of Jesus, ‘Thou shalt love,’ etc. (501-2)
The individual must also love Him. Emerson states, “Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.” (1518) You cannot love God without loving yourself and vice versa. Where there is love, there is trust. God created society; God created us; we must trust and love all of creation. “My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me,” (1452) says Emerson. A gift granted by God is worth as much love as one shows himself. “I find them, or rather, not I, but the Deity in me and in them, both deride and cancel the thick walls of individual character.” (1453) Society can become jovial and loving when the trust and love transcends the physical and becomes part of God. When we are all in tune and play our notes, the chords sound wonderful and a song plays
The Harper Collins definition is, “The chief purpose of love is to bring one’s neighbor into communion with God. True self-love and love for God are coincident or coextensive.” This definition says that to love others you have to bring others to God, just as St. Francis of Assisi said, “Preach the gospel at all times. When
God shows love in the greatest ways. There are so many passages, especially in the book of John that prove what a loving God we have. He sacrificed his only son for us and if that doesn't prove his amount of love then I'm not sure what could. Everyday this attribute of God shines through anybody who believes in him. There are ways love is working in your life right now and you don't even realize it. Romans 13:10- "love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law." Going about your day with love will never steer you wrong. Even if you feel like you just cannot be loving today, try your hardest to have an attitude of love and it will change your perspective for sure. It can drastically change your personal views as a believer, the way you can apply this attribute, and how the attribute of love can draw in non-believers.
You can never, ever love enough, as we try each day to give, help, sow, grow, and live good lives. However, the greedy people who suck up all the love without returning the love will remain empty, living worthless lives of loneliness, while being surrounded by many people. The walk of love towards God is a walk for the few to take, who enjoy the peace and pleasure of God's presence,
Love is a key ingredient of a moral life.Choices based on love of self and others are to be encourage and labeled good.Love promotes acceptable and a peaceful relationship between individuals, as well as groups and nations.
Among the multitudinous biblical references to love, the most comprehensive and decisive assessment of true love comes in St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians. He begins by stating that despite all of his faith and gifts from God, "if I have no love, I am nothing." (I Cor. 13:2) Clearly, Paul recognizes the importance of love. He goes on to define love in very explicit terms, telling both what love is and what it is not. Paul begins, "Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs." (I Cor. 13:4-5) The Apostle continues with the declaration that "love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth." (I Cor. 13:6) Recall here the biblical prohibition of cross-dressing (Deut. 22:5) and lying (Deut. 5:20) Disguise and deceit are far from the truth that makes love happy. The exhortation continues:
Reruns of The Oprah Winfrey Show, countless self-help books, and friends that plan to "help us out" protest to the assistance in finding true love. But the more and more we search for what we may not find, we are digging ourselves deeper into our own death. We refuse to see how bad something is until it completely destroys us. As it tears us limb from limb with its vicious hopes of affection, attraction, and adornment we can 't refrain from falling for the sacrilegious ways of love. Yet... Some of us still strive for it and question ourselves of what we did wrong because love has thrown us a curve ball we can not catch. But, no one has done anything wrong. It is love that has done the wrong with its ways of trickery and deceit. Muhamahs Ghandi 's believes that where there is this love, there is life. If this is true, the shadow of death follows quickly behind and there is no way to bring prosperity to life if this is so. For human society to prosper, affection must be removed because love is detrimental to sanity. The many mind-altering biochemicals that make up the effects of love, are the chemical that attribute to the negative emotions of life.
The Beatles (1968) expounded, “All you need is love, love, love is all you need”. Whenever this writer hears the song and especially the chorus, the smile infectiously appears. There is not one single importance in life than love. For your post the climacteric of the three, for this writer, is love. Love, breeds hope, second chances or new beginnings, without love none of the studies, its findings, and suggested corrections matter. Moreover, one cannot dismiss the power and majesty of love; it matter not who tries to define love the Bible is clear in 1 John 4:8 “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love” (ESV). Additionally, the Bible later in 1 John 4:15-20 instructs the believer in recognizing if the love is from God. 1 John 4:15-20 asserts:
To love and to be loved are the main point of human life. However, the level of love and the way that people express their love are totally different. There are many definitions of love and many poets describe love. But it is not the same for everyone. I can see love makes people develop the best. In love, many great thoughts are born. A person who is full of love knows the way to love others. Besides, if they are satisfied with their beloved, they won’t need to search for other love. In my opinion, I think true love is the important and essential point which makes people happy. What is the true love? Can people find the true love in their lives? It is a tough question because we are the imperfect people. Life is always changing and the emotions of people are also changing, too. We cannot say I will be faithful to
Throughout my entire life, it seemed as though everything was centered around my family’s collective core morals and an unwritten ethic code instilled in me as I grew up. My family’s principles remain a major part of my life, especially as I begin the transition to independence in the adult world. Considering my family has always been one of the most important things to me, I have always placed value on what I have learned from them and where we come from. My big, small-town family gave me a sense of what it means to help others, how we can accomplish this goal, and for what reasons. Being raised in a close-knit, Christian family with strong values will assist me in understanding how to be successful in terms of compassion and
It seems to be without question that love is at the core of what every human desires. We seek it from the start of life, before we even know the word or emotion, in the bond of parent and child. We look for it in friendships and family relationships as we grow throughout childhood. When mature, we long for the companionship that a lifelong vow of love and marriage will satisfy. The Bible mentions love hundreds of times and places it high above almost anything else, naming it as the center of our salvation in Christ and our hope of life eternal with Him. It’s almost too simple of a concept that love matters, but as Sue Gerhardt shares throughout her book Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain, somehow we lose sight of just how important love really is, and the fallout from this neglect can change a person’s life completely.
Before I talk about love in religion I want to give a more in depth explanation of what love is and why it is important from a human perspective. If you were to ask a psychologist what they think love is, they would probably describe it as an emotion or something that we feel when we experience desire or attraction to something. Our brains release chemicals such as dopamine and adrenaline when we experience love. It is a driving force that can cause us to act a certain way, think a certain way, or even believe a certain way. Because of this, it is often regarded as the single most powerful emotion a person can experience.