@Anu Kaley, Alondra Torres, Liz Horn, My Attitude , My Life , My Rules First, we should get a better understanding of what love is than this saying portrays. Sadly, the saying gives us the impression that love is something one offers to people who deserve it. That’s the secular humanistic view, the worldly view of love taught in our public education institutions. It puts the person who supposedly is willing to “love” someone in the arrogant position of judge to determine if someone deserves their “love”. It also demands that the other person measure up to their standards, in whatever way they deem appropriate, or that person is not worth loving. We should consider the height of this arrogance, because it is an arrogance that sets standards higher than righteous, just and loving God Himself, who has made it clear that He loves each and every one of His creation, so much so that He was willing to send His Son, Jesus Christ, to give His very life to redeem back to relationship with God every person who was willing to accept His life for their redemption. This is the true definition of LOVE, as we see from His Word, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. One the other hand, humanistic “love” becomes impatient with others, and resorts to unkindness, like backbiting, slight-of-hand, insinuations and the like. Humanistic “love” is envious, unrighteously jealous, and boastful of possessing that whom it “loves”. It takes pride in humiliation of whom it “loves” and acts in condescension toward whom it “loves”. In many ways it dishonors the memory of its “love” object, to seek its own aggrandizement and elevation. Humanistic “love” is easily angered for infractions of its “standards”, and keeps records in mind and heart of those infractions. In the end, humanistic “love” comes to delight in the evils of backbiting, insinuations, blame and condemnation, not rejoicing in the truth even in self-culpability, not protecting of reputation, nor trusting in another’s goodness, not hoping the best for the other’s well-being, and so, not preserving the memory of the good, nor forgiving. God’s demonstration to us is that standard for true love, self-giving without expectation of return, giving real freedom to the loved to love in return or not, yet constant in the grace (righteous power) of the Spirit to keep loving and forgive.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 03:35:08 +0000
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