love is an art, trust me. it is not something you can master overnight, it requires skill, technique, time, sacrifice, wisdom, energy and so many more other elements. when you have love, you will be emotionally, physically and mentally tested. becoz basically for every good thing that you feel, you will also suffer from a backlash of the opposite feeling. here is a case example of a boyfriend & girlfriend: they are both in love and they care a lot for each other, becoz of this, in the event that either one goes home late and fails to report to each other, the care will become worry, the worry become anxiety, which leads to panic and emotional unstability which finally leads to anger.
becoz you love, you want the best for the other, but it doesn't always happen in a luvy dovy way, that's why i am saying that love is no easy thing to achieve. and what i just mentioned earlier was just an example of a dating couple. there is also scenarios that involves husband & wife, close friends, church friends, school friends, colleagues, people you dunno know, God, pets, items, etc etc.
in the bible, it is mentioned that the greatest commandment is to love God with all our hearts and mind and strength and also to love everyone else as we love ourselves. wat ? love everyone else (the bible says neighbourlah, but everyone else is wat it means) you mean i got to love that beggar on the street ? wat about that idiot that i hate so much ? that lousy teacher ? the guy that robbed me ? etc etc. well, basically that is wat the bible literally means...so YES is the answer to all the questions above. it is not a matter of whether you can do it or not, it is how you can go about it happily. but one thing you must learn, you must first love God, learn what is love, then you must also know how to love yourself, otherwise how are you going to know what is love ?
love is not just about "oh, i miss you darling" or "oh i love you so much, i can't live without you" it is more than that, it is the geniune care from deep within that we have. just like how God loved us so much HE had to send HIS ONLY SON to die for us...now...THAT'S LOVE !!! when we have the love of God in our lives, it should be reflected in how we do things and how we live. if it isn't, then we got to pray and work harder towards achieving it. becoz you can have all the faith and power of the HS, so on and so forth, you may be the best preacher or leader in town, if there is no love, it is all useless. in the NT, it is clearly written that between HOPE, FAITH & LOVE, LOVE is actually the greatest. Jesus dying for our sins is a sign of greatness in love. it is the greatest commandment, it is the hardest thing that we can do in our christian lives. we can pray, we can praise, we can worship, we can lead, we can teach, all these we can acquire with minimum fuss. but to love, it is a much more complicated issue, from relationships alone...you can already see the complexity of love. wat more love towards the whole earth ? even i can't seem to love that beggar on the street, to feel sympathy...maybe...to feel sad..maybe...to extend a helping hand...er..maaaaaybe, to love and care...not yet God, why not another day...(you know lah, i so clean, the beggar so dirty, what if he got disease, what if he rob me, etc etc) see....i am sure many of you feel the same way, nothing to be shy about....coz i feel the same as well...that's why we are not perfect...but the important thing is we must have intentions (conviction)to improve.
there are also cases of people that have cheated or harmed us before...how are we ever gonna deal with all this people ?...and we got to do it in LOVE ? oh, God, you really got to come and help me man. one of those things that the bible and the world today seems to agree on is that LOVE is great. even the world can't deny this fact, a mother that loves her child can be almost 3 times as strong as she physically is if the child ever comes under threat. becoz of love....millions of reactions happen in our human body and guess what ? God created all these. isn't HE great ? without love, everything is empty and meaningless.
it is not easy to love, it is also not easy to be loved. but this is an art that we must all learn as soldiers of God, coz it will help carry us through the ups and downs of our lives. so how do we do it ? like i said, it is an art...there is no manual to teaching love, there are no steps to follow...the easiest is to allow God to first come into our lives, understand HIS love, learn to love HIM, learn to love ourselves the Godly way...and then begin to reach out to the rest of the world. all these we can only do by the grace of God, thru the spirit we learn and thru life we learn. May we all end up to be the best lovers that God wants us to be. good day !!!
becoz you love, you want the best for the other, but it doesn't always happen in a luvy dovy way, that's why i am saying that love is no easy thing to achieve. and what i just mentioned earlier was just an example of a dating couple. there is also scenarios that involves husband & wife, close friends, church friends, school friends, colleagues, people you dunno know, God, pets, items, etc etc.
in the bible, it is mentioned that the greatest commandment is to love God with all our hearts and mind and strength and also to love everyone else as we love ourselves. wat ? love everyone else (the bible says neighbourlah, but everyone else is wat it means) you mean i got to love that beggar on the street ? wat about that idiot that i hate so much ? that lousy teacher ? the guy that robbed me ? etc etc. well, basically that is wat the bible literally means...so YES is the answer to all the questions above. it is not a matter of whether you can do it or not, it is how you can go about it happily. but one thing you must learn, you must first love God, learn what is love, then you must also know how to love yourself, otherwise how are you going to know what is love ?
love is not just about "oh, i miss you darling" or "oh i love you so much, i can't live without you" it is more than that, it is the geniune care from deep within that we have. just like how God loved us so much HE had to send HIS ONLY SON to die for us...now...THAT'S LOVE !!! when we have the love of God in our lives, it should be reflected in how we do things and how we live. if it isn't, then we got to pray and work harder towards achieving it. becoz you can have all the faith and power of the HS, so on and so forth, you may be the best preacher or leader in town, if there is no love, it is all useless. in the NT, it is clearly written that between HOPE, FAITH & LOVE, LOVE is actually the greatest. Jesus dying for our sins is a sign of greatness in love. it is the greatest commandment, it is the hardest thing that we can do in our christian lives. we can pray, we can praise, we can worship, we can lead, we can teach, all these we can acquire with minimum fuss. but to love, it is a much more complicated issue, from relationships alone...you can already see the complexity of love. wat more love towards the whole earth ? even i can't seem to love that beggar on the street, to feel sympathy...maybe...to feel sad..maybe...to extend a helping hand...er..maaaaaybe, to love and care...not yet God, why not another day...(you know lah, i so clean, the beggar so dirty, what if he got disease, what if he rob me, etc etc) see....i am sure many of you feel the same way, nothing to be shy about....coz i feel the same as well...that's why we are not perfect...but the important thing is we must have intentions (conviction)to improve.
there are also cases of people that have cheated or harmed us before...how are we ever gonna deal with all this people ?...and we got to do it in LOVE ? oh, God, you really got to come and help me man. one of those things that the bible and the world today seems to agree on is that LOVE is great. even the world can't deny this fact, a mother that loves her child can be almost 3 times as strong as she physically is if the child ever comes under threat. becoz of love....millions of reactions happen in our human body and guess what ? God created all these. isn't HE great ? without love, everything is empty and meaningless.
it is not easy to love, it is also not easy to be loved. but this is an art that we must all learn as soldiers of God, coz it will help carry us through the ups and downs of our lives. so how do we do it ? like i said, it is an art...there is no manual to teaching love, there are no steps to follow...the easiest is to allow God to first come into our lives, understand HIS love, learn to love HIM, learn to love ourselves the Godly way...and then begin to reach out to the rest of the world. all these we can only do by the grace of God, thru the spirit we learn and thru life we learn. May we all end up to be the best lovers that God wants us to be. good day !!!
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