Love is the most abused word on Earth. Everyone claims he or she loves. Everyone claims he/she is a lover. You feel a little sensation in your belly when you see or think of someone, you call it love. That is bullshit.
The sensation you feel when you see someone beautiful or you are attracted to is not love, it is a basic chemical reaction going on in your brain. Love is not an attraction. Love is not a likeness. Love is much more than a feeling. Love is action. Love is hard work. Gritty, hard work.
Love is forgiveness. Love is putting others first. Love is praying for your enemies. Love is not wishing evil on someone that has done nothing but evil to you. Love is not selfish. Love is praying for your parents that were never there for you. Love is respect. Love is giving. Love is sacrifice.
Love is going out all the way for someone who would not move an inch for you. Love is not repaying evil for evil. Love is overcoming evil with good.
Love was expressed in its purest form when God sent His Son to die for the sins of man, even while we were still in that sin. God took the greatest risk of all. Man could reject him. Man could refuse to believe in Him, yet, he sent his Son. That is love. I don't care how bad you are. I don't care how selfish you are. I don't care how evil you are, but I will pray for you anyway. I will forgive you anyway. That is love.
So before you claim someone loves you, ask yourself if that person loves God. Because if you don't appreciate God's love, you cannot fully love others. Only someone lost in God's love can fully love you.
A quote from 1st Corinthians 13, The Message version
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
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