Love

Part 1.

A fantastic friend of mine asked me to write her a blog about "Love and Why You Shouldn’t Waste Your Life Away Searching For It." I told her I most definantly would then decided against it mainly reasoning that love is the most basic and needed element to sustain life. And if you aren’t loving then you should definantly throw many attempts at finding love. So in one hand I agree you should not throw your life away searching for love but in the other hand I think it is the most crucial element of living.

"Because of free will, even though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having."--C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity

In the first hand, I don’t mean to tell you to stop living life to find love, but in life love will come to you. You will need to do some searching to understand a true pure love between a man and wife, Bridesgroom and bride, etc etc. This will not be easy. If you do not love, truly love, then you are nothing.

"And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." 1 Corinthians 13:2

Here are the characteristics of love as recorded in The Histories Recorded by His Beloved. also known as the Bible.

"Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails." -1st Corinthians 13:4-8

As human being we are called to react to other human beings with love. The verse above tells you EXACTLY how you should love others. Anger and Hate have to be thrown out the window of your life. Jesus commands you to turn the other cheek. If you get screwed over in the end then you know that person is someone who needs to know Christ’s love more than anything.

There is a love among friends and a love among man and wife. God gave us this love and knowledge of this love so that you could acknowledge how much He loves you. If you could think of a thousand people that love you the most and combine there love for you, all of their love doesn’t even compare to how much Christ loves you.

Christ even goes as far to say "Love Thy Enemy". He didn’t mean climb in bed with them. He meant show them His love. I think even if you were asked to die for your enemy Christ would expect you to do so. When He said "love your enemy" he didn’t mean to just put up with them or just to ignore them. He meant for you to LOVE them. If they need something done then do it for them. If they are struggling in something help them with it. If they require your life for theirs then lay down your life. For that is what Jesus did for us. To save us from our sins.

He wants this close intimate loving relationship with you. He doesn’t just want to be buddy buddy with you. He’s proposing to you. He is the Bridesgroom and you are the bride.

So yes and no I think you should always be in pursuit of love, all through your life. Not some wishy washy love that when youre mad at someone then you dont love them but when they are nice to you you do love them. He wants you loving them constantly. But I believe that He has plans for you. A certain person you are to be with. I don’t think you should worry away your life searching for a soulmate. But never stop looking.

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Part 2.


Someone tried to correct me on my last Love blog about "living in love instead of pursing it" and I do agree with that mostly but not entirely. I could tell you of course you are to live in love. But when you go and look at your life from an outward view you will notice however hard you try you won’t succeed in doing so. We are not perfect and cannot live in a perfect love. That is why I said we must persue it. Always pursuing it. Always loving your neighbor and your enemy and yourself and our God.

Love or Charity whichever you choose to achnowledge this as, it is the same either way.

I may have come across seeming too much and pressing too much to make it seem that love is an emotion or feeling. This is not what I intended or meant. It is not what God intended or meant.

The best way to put it has already been put for you to understand it and is said best by C.S. Lewis.

"It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people."

When he says we naturally love ourselves, not like ourselves, is that we honestly want whats best for us naturally. The way we are to love our neighbor or our enemy is not supposed to be that of a feeling or emotion. It is the way we act toward them. The actions we do for or against them defines our love for them. But we must be careful that our love and affection for one person does not hurt another person.

He goes on to talk about that we must not try to become affectionate for any one neighbor or enemy to be able to love them. But quite the opposite. That we should love them and that the affection with come along with the actions towards them. If God wants to bless you with the emotional love feeling then He will, but He wants you to love them through your actions not emotions.

Trying to treat more people with kindness will lead you to loving more people as you go on.

But the more you hate and treat people with distaste the more you will hate and dislike them.

It is the same as your love toward God. Many people will look and be afraid because they don’t see that love in themselves toward God, but the same lawy applies.

Live like you did love God. Imagine how you would act if you did love Him, and live that way. As you live your life with the actions of your love for Him the more your love will grow for Him just like with people.

No matter how much you sin, how much you mess up, Christ love never leaves you. He will always love you. It is your choice wether or not to love Him back. If you read this as someone who isn’t a follower of Christ and you say "He doesn’t love me or He wouldn’t send me away to hell." Then you are wrong. He has given you a choice.

He is our heart.