Monday, June 25, 2007

Love?

I have been pondering the word "love". Is it a feeling, a mood, a seduction? Can we love on command? Does love belong to us or does it only come alive when we give it away? What does the Lord say about love? Since God is love is all love of God? Well no, not in the world's eyes.
Is unconditional love possible by people in a fallen world or does it only come from God?
I referenced the word "love" in the New Testament and it is cited 198 times. Some of these references are about how God's love but many of them are commands for "us" to love one another. It is what defines us as Christians and separates us from the world, it makes us holy. I guess that means we are to love on command. I guess that means it is a non negotiable command to love through Christ? I'm going to be on a journey with this one as it has been my new challenge.

Matthew 22:34-40
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"

Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.

And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

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