What is Love?

Bold of me to speak of this?
Nah.
God has told us,
including me,
what Love is.

Dear friends, let us love one another,
for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Whoever does not love does not know God,
because God is love.
This is how God showed his love among us:
He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
This is love:
not that we loved God,
but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Dear friends,
since God so loved us,
we ought to love one another.
No one has ever seen God;
but if we love one another,
God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

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God is love.
Whoever lives in love lives in God,
and God in him.
In this way,
love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgement,
because in this world we are like him.
There is no fear in love.
But perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment.
The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

We love because he first loved us.
If anyone says, "I love God,"
yet hates his brother,
he is a liar.
For anyone who does not love his brother,
whom he has seen,
cannot love God,
whom he has not seen.
And he has given us this command:
Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Familiar, some may say.
It's from the word of God.

My command is this:
Love each other as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this,
that he lay down his life for his friends.

Yet another familiar verse.
The verse I stand by with regards to my dearies.

How could we say love doesn't exist?
How could we say love exist only in fairytales?
How could we say love is bullshit?
How could we say love only brings more heartaches than joy?
How could we...

[Loving someone means allowing the other person to respond in ways you have no control over. Everytime you engage yourself in an intimate, loving way with someone else, you become partly subjected to the exhilaration of hearing another person's yes or the disappointment in his or her no. The more people you love, the more pain you may experience. For the great mystery of love is that while it can be received, it can also be rejected. Everytime you love, you enter into the risk of love.]

Many have definitions of love.
Some painful, some sweet.
I'll let you in on something.
God's love......always sweet.

We are often so caught up with looking for the perfect 'him' or 'her',
that we lose sight of loving.
Both loving God and loving 'him' or 'her'.
We nit picked everything.
For me,
his hair, his bods, his smile, his charisma, his humour, his accent, his charm, his expressions, his gestures, his walk with God, his.....the list never ends huh?
Well,
for God...
He simply loves.

However,
I've learnt one thing.
Man's love dies down.
Love seem to deterioriate over time.
Husbands and wifes fall apart,
Boyfriends and girlfriends choose to break up.
Children of God fall away,
because they no longer love and felt loved.

God's nature,
neverchanging.
Neither is His love.
That is why it feels so secure to be in Him,
than in any man/woman's heart.

Just like Simon Peter.
Jesus asked "Simon son of John, do you truly agape me more than these?"
"Yes Lord," he said, "you know that I phileo you."
To put it simply,
agape was the highest level of love,
sacrificial love.
Simon Peter could only offer phileo,
the second level of love.

Love is important.
Just as it is very important to us,
it is important to God.

Two thousand years ago, at a quiet spot just beside the Sea of Galilee,
our Lord asked Simon Peter a question that would foreve change the course of his life.
Two thousand years later,
He is asking each of us the same question,
"Do you love me?"