The Meaning of Love
January 26, 2007 by Administrator.
Day by day, I hear the phrase, “I love him”, “I love her”, or “I love you”. Yet, when I hear these sayings from various people and consider the situation, I begin to doubt the meaning of “love”. It appears to me that the word “love” has a very warped view from the meaning it is given in Scripture. The word is very abused. I think as Americans, we have a selfish meaning for it. It seems that we “love” someone when it benefits us in some way. We believe that some individual makes us happy. We desire the companionship of others for a number of reasons. A few of them are happiness, affection, and loneliness. For these three basic things, the motive behind each one is selfishness. We think that he/she will make us happy. We want their affection. We don’t want to be lonely. Did Christ love us because of what He could receive in return? If he had… no one would have been saved by His blood. Christ’s love was the purest act of unselfishness. He died for us when the masses hated Him and His disciples deserted, denied, and betrayed Him. Was Jesus getting anything in return for His love? Was He getting happiness, affection, and the satisfaction of not being alone? Like it says in 1 Corinthians, “love is not self-seeking.” As followers of Christ, we have the example of how to live out love. There is no greater love for one, than when someone lays down his life for his friends. I believe this verse is saying that unselfishness is the key. Would someone die for another if his or her ulterior motive of love was selfishness? I really don’t think so. The next time you go to say, “I love you”, are you meaning it the Biblical or American way? The meaning of love is found in Christ Jesus.
Forget The Old
January 13, 2007 by admin.
I don’t want the old. All I want is You.
Brokenhearted
January 7, 2007 by admin.
All of us have at one time or another been brokenhearted for a number of reasons. As Christians, when our hearts are broken is when we draw closest to the Lord Jesus. When all is well in our lives we tend to forget why we need the Lord. Read here what the Bible says about the brokenhearted in
Psalm 34:18-22 (
NASB):
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones, not one of them is broken. Evil shall slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned. The LORD redeems the soul of His servants, and none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned.
There is refuge in the Lord. Though the wicked may not suffer as much as the righteous during life, they will suffer eternally in their condemnation. Our crushed spirits must only lean on Him or else we have no protection. He keeps our bones from being broken and saves our hearts. Christ is our only isle of hope.