Love Is

This world is filled with ideas that have been tweaked, twisted, and airbrushed. They are injected into our psyche in the guise of morals, values, or principles. We take them as gospel truth, stand up for them, even die for them. And at the end of the day we don’t know any better.

Take LOVE for example. It is perhaps the most abused, overused, and misused concept in the universe. We have uprooted it from its origins, analyzed it, dissected it, turned it over, and we still don’t get it. We’ve categorized it into types, ranked it by degrees, depth, and importance, and it’s essence still eludes us. Not because we don’t know what it is supposed to be, but rather because we’ve never experienced it for what it really is.

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 with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

There is no Philial love, or Eros, or Agape. There is only LOVE. The kind described in 1 Corinthians 13. It’s either love or it’s not. It’s supposed to be that simple. But in keeping with our nature, we complicate things. We get one idea and we build a world of other ideas around it and we allow ourselves to get lost in the process. When we could no longer find answers to questions that never should’ve been asked in the first place, we go to the part were we simply stop trying.

A man and a woman meet and the attraction between them or that desire to be with each other for all eternity is often mistaken as love. When in fact what they have is something physical, emotional, and mental. Love is spiritual. It’s a different aspect of life altogether. To KNOW it, you have to learn it in it’s arena, the realm of the spirit, where God is. Because where God is, love is also. Actually, God and Love, they’re one and the same.