What is Love?
What is Love. Love is perhaps the most confusing of all the emotions that we have. The fact that the English language uses love to mean a wide variety of things makes things all the more confusing. We’re going to look at the Christian kind of love that we are all supposed to have.
Most people equate Christian love with just being nice and all to other Christians, and to good people.
But, there is more than just that. Jesus says, in Matthew 5:44, that we should love our enemies as ourselves, and that we should be kind to those who hate us. How many of us find that easy? Most of us automatically don’t like people who are our enemies, and almost everyone has trouble being nice to people who hate us. But, Jesus says that we are to love them, and do good to them.
Not only are we told to love our enemies, and each other, we are also told what the greatest form of love is. John 15:13 says that the greatest love is when someone dies for one of his friends. How many of us could die for a friend? Not just talk about doing it, but actually doing it?
In closing, lets look at how important love is. 1 Corinthians 13:13 says that out of Faith, Love and Hope, love is the greatest. According to that verse, love is greater than having hope or having faith. I think that really puts it into perspective HOW important love really is for Christians to have.
