02.06.10
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
With Valentine’s Day coming up next week, how do you define love? Some describe it as a feeling. Others claim it’s an attachment between people. Still others view it as a physical act between those who are intimate. To their defense, all of them are partial right. True love (Agape) is a love that is given without reason or without cause. It is an unconditional love that takes no account for past wrongs and can look past hurts. Agape is a love that one gives to someone when they are the least loveable and when they don’t deserve it. I once had a person say “So are you saying I don’t deserve it? This is what I mean! You think so little of me.” But that person was totally missing the true point of agape love. It doesn’t matter what issues are going on with you, with agape love you are going to be loved regardless. This is the Love that God offers to us.
Where do we find this kind of love? Well we find this kind of love in our relationships. In relationships where this agape love is practiced, the relationship flourishes. That is why having a relationship with God is so important. God is love. He is exemplifies love in the form of the perfect relationship marked by agape unconditional love in the form of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. It guides us in all that we do. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 says:
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,] but have not love, I gain nothing.”
So if we do not have love or relationships that our love can move in, we must perceive in reality that we have absolutely nothing. We can do all the best things in the world but without having this love, it is all for naught.
