Saturday, September 20, 2008

LOVE 爱 ‘Ahava’


LOVE


Everyone knows whats 'Love', many have felt it, many have experienced it, but what is TRUE LOVE?

People claim that love has many forms, and could just simply be mistaken by lust. Which is something that is self-centered, instead of loving concern for others. Love is somewhat senses of affection or sexual attraction to another person.


I believe that Love comes from God, thus God created Love, and God is Love itself and Love is God. The power of true love is an extremely powerful feeling that we have or will encounter eventually in our wonderful lives. I believe in loving God in all our heart, mind and strength and we should always love our neighbours as we love yourselves, these are one of the most important things in life. (Mark)


As also found in 1 John 4:7-12 : "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete is us." And this is God's love for us all. But its not finished.


This is what true love really means : "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 God is good. :)


Only the righteous and pure can only enter Heaven, but since this applies, then none of us can enter, because we all have sinned, thus we are sinners, and sinners would not enter heaven. So we are condemned to go to the "Lake of Fire"? Listen to what John 3:16 says: "For GOD so loved the world he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have ETERNAL LIFE" Many have heard the cruxifiction of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. But Jesus Christ did not die in vain. God, the creator of Love, sacrificed his only begotten Son, for us ALL sinners, so that our Salvation would not be taken away from us, so if we believe in Jesus Christ and follow the Truth, he have the 'ticket' to God's Kingdom, Heaven. GOD IS GREAT, ISN'T HE?


How Great is Our God. Imagine yourself have a son, your only Son, and you had to sacrifice him just because you had too, for a much greater reason. Now, try to imagine how you will feel...


We loved, because God first loved us. So in return, we have to love our neighbours, which means: friends, enemies, family, strangers etc. Yes. As part of the Ten Commandments, we should love our neighbours as yourselves. And in 1 John 3:16 says that "Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers".


God's Love is just simply indescribable. Think through what you have read from this blog, for God is Love and Love is God. By the way, Jesus rose from the dead, soon later, amazing isn't it?

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