06/07/2025
what is true love?
love?
Love is not a feeling, attraction, or emotion which fade away as time goes by. Love is the Spirit of God, which is pure, eternal, infinite, truthful, selfless, forgiving, gentle, sacrificial, and meek. It is force pleads us as our conscience to unconditionally help others in need and helps us to persevere in this mission despite pain, suffering, physical danger, betrayal, and failures. To love is to accept God’s Spirit into our heart, and allow Him to work through our thoughts, words, and actions. Therefore, to love others we must first love God. Furthermore, if we hate even one person, we can’t love God or anyone else, because love and hate can’t coexist in the same heart. Furthermore, if we love God, who is love, we will recognize the love others have for us. This helps us to see good in others.
Love is free of jealousy, rudeness, self-pity, revenge, pride, and selfishness. It is always resilient, faithful, selfless, and hopeful. It does not delight in failures and wrongdoings of others but always delights in their goodness. This Spirit is imprinted on every human heart and speaks to us as our conscience. True Love is all or none. Therefore, if we hold back anything, it is not true love. The ultimate expression of love occurred when God took a human form and died on the cross for the sins we committed against Him.
We all have a choice to accept or reject a life pure love. Nothing can prevent us from making this choice because we have a free will. Since God is the Spirit of love, we cannot love anyone, unless we love God first. To love God is to surrender our will to God, sacrifice our own interest and unconditionally serve others. God gave us the capability to love, so that we will accept it and have His peace and joy for all eternity. Though there are many expressions of love there is only one love, because there is only one God. This Love is infinite and never dies because it is unconditional. Love has nothing to do with attraction or emotion. It enables us to put our life on the line to help those who hate us. When we choose love, we look at all human beings as precious children of God and our brothers and sisters.
True Love expects nothing in return. It is love for the sake of love. When we expect something in return it is not love, because it has a selfish motive. This may be hard to swallow because in the present world it is always about me.
Love does good for others, even when there is hate and betrayal. Jesus told us to love our enemies, do good to those who hurt us and pray for them, offer the other cheek if slapped on one, and do not retaliate when we are hurt, give to everyone that asks, and do not ask it back, and forgive without any limit. On the other hand, all other forms of so-called love have a limit, because they are conditional.
We have a choice to accept or reject God’s love as our life. If we accept love we will be free of hate, and we will unconditionally love others. We cannot love some and hate others, because no one who loves God can hate another human being. Therefore, if we hate even one person, we cannot truly love anyone. even though we might show affection towards them.
Because pure love is unconditional, it is infinite, perfect, and unbreakable. Because God is love, to love is to allow the spirit of God within us to take complete control of our life. This requires complete trust in God and surrendering our will to Him. Those who unconditionally love others, therefore are never concerned about themselves, and take delight in caring for others, especially those who hate them. They are also willing to sacrifice their life and self interest in helping them. Their yes is always a yes. This frees them of fear, anxiety, greed, and hate.