LOVE IS A VERBWHAT IS LOVE?

WHAT IS LOVE?

Different people have different definition of love. I have tried not to dispute anytime I hear people define love. People define love from there angle of and their own understanding.

Love is like that proverbial Elephant which some blind men saw and they were all describing it from the point where they were standing or the part their hands were holding.

All of us have our own individual definition of love. Even little children have their own definition of love. There is something that if someone does to you, you will conclude that the person does not love you. This is how man is created by God. God created man with a very limited understanding of things. As a matter of fact, we learn more as we grow and get matured in the things of life and God. Experience teaches us things and people we meet also teach us too.

Let us explore a little more with Wikipedia’s Definition of Love. “Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment. Love is also a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection —"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". Love may also be described as actions towards others or oneself based on compassion, or as actions towards others based on affection”

“Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment.” Love is an emotion, a very strong affection. Affection means to care for someone. The fact is that you can’t love someone without getting attached to that person to a large extent. Anybody that we love becomes part of our lives consciously or unconsciously. We try as much as possible to protect the person even if the person is wrong. We must find a way or a word to justify the person’s mistakes or bad attitudes.

Love is also a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection." The unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another.” Virtue is behavior that show high moral standard. And that is what love does. Love does not allow us to hurt another person. Love teaches us to pursue the good of others. Anytime we are in love with a person, we look for a way to always make them happy. Even if we offend them we still come back to ask forgiveness (sometime they are the people that actually love us).

LOVE AS EMOTION & FEELING

Many people get angry when they hear people define love as “having a strong feeling” or as “a strong emotional feeling.” But I don’t see why some will get angry at that, because in live there is a strong feeling of affection and also a strong emotional attachment. No husband can say he loves his wife without being emotionally attached to her. No mother can say she loves her child without having to feel what the child feels.

It is the love the wife has for her husband that makes her to want to have sex with him, likewise the husband. Anytime someone you love falls sick you will find out that you also will lose your health because you will be feeling for the person. Therefore, we can’t isolate “love” from “emotion and feeling” or let us call it emotional feeling.

Having said thus, there are so many other emotions and other things we feel: like anger, hunger, excitement, fear etc. So it is funny to me when someone says that “he/she cannot control his/her emotions.” People always say this when it comes to sexual issue. But I use to ask them “how many times have your father or mother made you angry and you slapped him/her?” My point is that feeling and emotions are meant to be controlled so they are still part of our love life.

LOVE IS A VERB

Love is not sex; love is not buying gifts for a sex mate. Love is something that is more than what we call it. Love is a “verb.” Verb is action. Verb is a word that expresses action. That means love is action and not theory. Love is not what one says when he wants to have a feel of the body of another (opposite sex). Love is what we do not just what we say. Mother Teresa said “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”  Love does not require us some great things but it requires us doing little things but with so much love attached on it.

VERB IS A SERVICE WORD…therefore LOVE IS SERVICE

Love is service. To love others is to serve them. Serving doesn’t make u less or a weak person. To love your nation is to serve her. To love your family is to serve her. To say that you love God is to serve God. So LOVE is SERVICE. The level of love we have for one another is measured by the service we are able to render to each other.

Even Jesus Christ told Peter “if you love me keep my commandment.” Keeping someone’s commandment is a sign of how important that person is to you. Obeying someone is serving the person. Serving and meeting the persons need.

Therefore LOVE is SERVICE. Nicholas Sparks wrote, “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul and to me, this has always been enough.”  So it is not about how special one is but how loving one is.

Service brings u to a place of authority. People tend to love us more when we serve them. Because when we serve them, we show them how special they are. Another thing is serving makes one to learn beyond his knowledge. And knowledge we all know is power. Knowledge elevates us to a higher place of authority.

LOVE IS COLORFUL

Anytime we take love into anybody’s life the person laughs more, smiles more and even works more. Love always looks like a rainbow. Love has no particular color, however wherever love appears brightness comes upon everyone around.

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”  William Shakespeare. This why when someone that you love hurts you, you don’t feel like given up on the person. When someone you love starts to misbehave in the society you don’t feel like given up. Sometimes when someone that you love is not meeting up with life’s standard you keep telling yourself that you know that one day he will make it. As Albert Schweitzer puts it, “the true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.” Love is colorful. Your worth is not how many cars or houses you were able to build at your life time. Your worth is not about how many designer shirts, trousers, shoes, wrist watch, etc that you have.

Your worth is measured by how many lives you were able to touch in your life time. Jesus Christ never owned mansions here on earth, but He worth more than any other living or dead man. Show someone some love always. Make someone happy. Mother Teresa is not been celebrated because of houses or cars she build or bought. But because of how many lives she touched with love when she was here on earth. Anytime you show someone some love you are adding more colour to the person’s life. Solve someone’s challenges. Add colour to a life today.

JESUS CHRIST coloured the world with his love and His Love was attached to HIS BLOOD. Jesus Christ was able to prove the love He has for humans not just by coming down from heaven but by colouring it with His blood. Every drop of blood that gushed out of His body was a sign of the love He has for we human. It is that BLODD that is speaking better thing more than the blood of Abel. Remember that Abel’s blood was shouting “vengeance” will Jesus Christ’s BLOOD is shouting “forgiveness.”

Visit the motherless, the poor and needy ones. Tell someone about the love JESUS CHRIST showed on the cross when HE died for us. Show love to your parents and family members. Show love to our country by serving in the field where u work. Pray for your Pastors, Revd Fathers, Shepherds, Priests and other Church leaders. Pray for your President, Governors, LGA Chairmen, Senators, House Rep members, etc. That is LOVE in action. I love you… see you as we colour our world together WITH LOVE…

LOVE IS A VERB.

Finally, if Jesus Blood has not added colour to your life just make this short prayer: LORD JESUS, THANK YOU FOR DYING ON THE CROSS FOR MY SINS. THANK YOU FOR TAKING AWAY MY SINS AND SORROWS. COME INTO MY LIFE AND BE MY GOD AND THE LORD OF MY LIFE. I CONFESS ALL MY SINS. AND I PROMISE NOT TO CONSCIOUSLY GO BACK TO SIN, GIVE ME YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, TO GUIDE AND DIRECT ME. THANK YOU LORD FOR HEARING MY PRAYERS… AMEN.

Friend that has made this prayer… welcome as JESUS CHRIST”S LOVE colours your world with HIS BLOOD. Stay Painted with the BLOOD.

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