2007-01-08 12:00:21 · 8 answers · asked by Myaloo 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2007-01-08 12:09:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
2007-01-08 20:07:49 · answer #2 · answered by dooltaz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is unconditional deep affection for someone or something. Its caring for their wellbeing, both physically and emotionally and wanting to be with them, regardless of what they might ever do. Its what makes life worthwhile.
2007-01-08 21:30:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is the emotional reaction to the limitted awareness that two are one.
2007-01-08 20:10:32 · answer #4 · answered by paradigm_flux 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is the greatest miracle in life
Love is the source and love is the end also
2007-01-08 20:06:40 · answer #5 · answered by wb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its like a Bronze Hammer that Tempers the Steel Sword of Lust.
its like Wind in that its Intangible yet you know its there.
2007-01-08 20:11:17 · answer #6 · answered by I Kick Babies 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
love is patient, love is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, does not act rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in inequity, but rejoices in truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
2007-01-08 20:07:20 · answer #7 · answered by Bob B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sacrifice
2007-01-09 00:09:37 · answer #8 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋