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LOVE
What is love? Love is life; love is the greatest emotion there is in the
world. The Bible says love covers all errors. Fear’s a great emotion too but in
the presence of love there’s no fear. True love never ends; instead it gives
hope and faith infinitely. Love gives birth to or yields life. When there’s
love, people and things come alive. Love made God create the universe and
everything in it. Love also led God to redeem the world from sin and death by
sending His only begotten son, Jesus Christ, to die for the sins of the world
and to be a ransom for many. Jesus Christ summarized the Ten Commandments into
two very simple commandments: the first is to love the Lord your God with all
your heart, mind, soul and strength while the second is to love your neighbour
as yourself. If you love God and your neighbour, then there’ll be no room for
hate, strife or fear. There’ll only be peace, harmony and freedom.
But the big question is: why does love cost so much? Not many of us can say
we really have true love for anyone or anything. This is because if we took the
1 Corinthians 13 test of true love found in the Bible, most of us would fail it.
We’re willing to let others go through a lot of suffering even when we have the
power to stop or relieve it. We don’t love ourselves enough to share the love
with others around us and are willing to put even ourselves through needless
suffering and agony for a selfish desire. It’s noble to suffer for your fellow
human beings for a just cause because love is unselfish and doesn’t seek to have
its own way all the time but hopes and endures all things. We say we are going
to save all our love for something or someone who’ll love us completely and
requite to us all we give it or them. We want to love only those who’ll give us
the desires of our heart and meet our every whim. What we don’t realize is this
is selfish love and that’s not the way to think or live. When we love everyone
unconditionally, everything becomes alright with us because we don’t think of
ourselves more highly than we ought to and we don’t take offense at everything
or everyone. We also are able to live in harmony with others because love isn’t
quick to look at error but instead overlooks all errors and overcomes evil with
good.
When someone wrongs you, don’t repay evil with evil instead overcome evil
with good. When you love and continue to do good to someone who consistently
disappoints and does you wrong, they get burnt up inside because you overcome
the wrong that’s inside of them. This way you don’t respond to their bad
treatment of you by getting angry or upset as they want you to and they don’t
succeed or get gratified by bringing you down. When you love you’re able to
maintain a cheerful and positive attitude because you know your happiness
doesn’t depend on others or on circumstances and no one can bring you down or
steal your sunshine or destroy your peace and joy. You’ll also rest assured in
the fact that you’re obeying God’s commandments all summarized into one word –
love, for with God obedience is better than sacrifice. You’ll have pleased God,
your fellow human beings and you in turn will be pleased with yourself, for
service with love has the greatest reward, satisfaction and fulfillment. So go
ahead, love God, love yourself, love everyone as you love yourself and love
unconditionally like you’ve never been hurt. That is love and love is life.
LOVE IS LIFE!!!
- Bancy Mwihaki.
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