In what you consider your most intimate relationship, can you honestly say that you loved your spouse 100%. Did you love fully with no reserve, giving him/her your everything. And when you consider all that you are, body, soul, spirit; did you work physically? Did you nourish the essence of her soul? Did you uplift his spirit? Have you ever poured your all into loving someone? What about the people around? What about your friends and family? Have you devoted your all to loving them for all you're worth? In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul has the audacity to say that you have nothing if you don't love. You have nothing if you haven’t given yourself 100%.
The way the bible approaches love might seem strange to the way we perceive it in our current culture. You always hear people say that they are "in love." That phrase has been tossed around so much that I believe it means very little these days. Now being in love simply describes the feeling of elation from the infatuation we feel around a potential spouse. So much than ever before we are falling in love and consequently falling out of love.
Jesus never spoke of love in terms of a feeling. In the book of Mark 12:30-31 Jesus commands us to do something that would generally not fly in our world today. He commands us to love. Now if we are simply under the notion that one can only fall in love, then this command would seem totally unreasonable. Because what if the other person hurt you? What if that person cheats on you or abuses your love? Yet the paradox still remains, without this kind of 100% love you have nothing. Your wisdom means nothing. Your money means nothing. All your other efforts fall apart with this %100 love.
Take a minute to really consider this. What greater meaning is there to life than to do as Jesus commanded; love the Lord your God with your entire being and to love your neighbor %100 as you love yourself.
To be continued
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- Check out this video by Josh McDowell on Loving Yourself
- Also check out this Wedding Toast by Jeff Bethke
- How do you know someone is “the one.”
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