Love is....

Love… I ran across a list of quotes about love. Reading them made me wonder how differently we define love....just what does it means to love, what does it look like to be loved.... What do you say?

I think lots of us have some very skewed perceptions about love. Some of the quotes I can’t agree with, some of them don’t measure up with the teaching of Jesus.

“God IS love.” (1John 4:16 emphasis mine)

He invented the whole concept, it defines Him…and He gets to define what love is, not me

Or you.

One of the quotes I read is : “Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Interesting quote to think about.

How does the happiness of another person effect me? What person’s happiness matters to me?

Jesus said we are to love God first and foremost. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' …..”

And He said we are to “Love your neighbor as yourself.'…” (Mark 12:30-31)

Loving other people is second only to loving God. I’d say that’s a pretty important matter to consider.

“ There is no commandment greater than these." (Mark 12:31)

I tried hard to love a god I didn’t really know. I knew facts of history, not character and nature.

I was afraid of Him, knew I was supposed to love Him but didn’t find Him very loveable. Nor did I grasp His love for me. I didn’t know it, and certainly didn’t live in it.

All the dissatisfaction within me was a symptom of my need to know and live in His love. God loves us with a love we can not fathom, nor can we duplicate it. Man was created to live in His love…we are never complete and happy any other way.

His capacity to love is beyond human capacity, but He DOES enable us to love beyond our nature.

His love is essential to my happiness.
Loving Him is essential to my happiness.

If you don’t love Him, you wonder that you don’t know really Him.


Find Him today. He is so good.