We all try to be happy, but it's really hard especially when the loneliness kicks in. Sometimes I wish someone would just sit beside me without saying a word, but just to keep me company. It's hard being alone, everyone needs a little love; everyone needs to love.
Is it possible to love something that you want to love? What exactly is love that we all want to experience? Why is it the greatest of all virtues, even above Joy. Isn't the goal of all men to seek happiness, and isn't love a means to an end (joy) or is it something else? It might be that there's something about Love that we've yet to experience. If God is Love, perhaps the key to understanding love is to understand God.
The feeling that we call Love is not a decision, we don't decide to feel emotionally attracted to someone or something. There must be a certain characteristic or experience with that object or person in order to trigger this emotional response. How do we achieve that? There are some things and people in life that we ought to love but yet we don't love them. Instead we love what we ought to hate, how is it possible that that which is worthy of love doesn't possess the characteristics that encourages love, but we enjoy surround ourselves which that we is evil.
Perhaps to love is to go against all human desires. Love what you hate, and hate what you love. But then it would be mere duty and decision if we choose to love what we hate, and lacking in the true virtue emotionally.
I used to think that Love was an action. To show love; to be loving. But I realized that actions without the emotions were meaningless - to love your enemies out of duty wasn't showing love. How then shall we love that which we do not love, but ought to love?
Love cannot be decided, but yet the bible commands it.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. - Luke 10:27
People always tell me to love God is to do this and do that, and God will "awaken" your heart to love him. But shouldn't love come from our heart and not from God? Love stemming from gratitude and affections from the self to give praise to God, isn't that real Love?
I believe that there's so much more to learn about love, and I pray God will teach me how to love.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. - Matthew 13:44
It's white just because.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
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Love is a mystery and is mysterious..... Ask, seek and knock.... God will answer...His answer will not defer from His written word...
ReplyDeleteCalJan said
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed we need to ask God to teach us how to love. We cannot comprehend fully God's love cos it is very deep and wide. Also His way and His doing are impossible for us (His creation) to comprehend. We can only see or comprehend only a glimpse of God's love. He came down in human form through Jesus to show us His love and also to demonstrate to us how we can love others as Jesus did when He is on earth. Also Jesus's way is not acceptable to many as it is contrary to what sinner man (self-centered) like to see and do. But Jesus's way is possible if we are willing and depend on God's grace and strength to learn from Him to love more and more.