the true meaning of love

February 3, 2010

the true meaning of love

An Indian couplet puts it;

Love is Truth and Truth is the name of God.

Without Love in the world, life has no meaning.

Described as wider than the widest ocean and deeper than the deepest sea, Love is boundless, infinite.

Love is indivisible.  One cannot love one section of humanity and hate the other; that will be like dividing the fowl, cooking half ot it and keeping the other half for laying.  Love is unconditional; it embraces all, saints ans sinners alike, just as how God sends the rain to the just and the unjust alike.

Love sees only the good.  To Love everything is beautiful, and as the song writer,  speaking of the all embracing  Love of Jesus puts it:

Were the whole realm of Nature mine,

That were an offering far too small;

Love, so amazing, so Divine,

Demands my soul, my life, my all.

This stanza was taken from the hymn “When I survey the wondrous cross.  On which the Prince of Glory died;  My richest gain I count but loss,  And pour contempt on all my pride”.

Greater Love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends.  Only Love can make the final sacrifice.

So beloved, let us love one another, for Love is of God, and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. 2 Peter 3 : 17.

In Love only will one find content, Joy and the Peace that passeth all understanding.   A life without Love is a wasted life.

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