2007-01-20 00:37:13 · 7 answers · asked by HaMza 1 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
2007-01-20 00:40:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God IS love
2007-01-20 08:39:31 · answer #2 · answered by j b 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it would be awfully hard not to love the creation He made; He must have invested so much time simply creating DNA and then something so amazing as our brain - it's like when parents have babies. God already has emotions, and knows their usefulness and importance, and He didn't want little robots, so He bestowed emotions in humans and some animals.
2007-01-20 08:45:28 · answer #3 · answered by Iamnotarobot (former believer) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God made Love because, GOD IS LOVE.
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us, God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God , and God in him. 1 John 4:16
2007-01-20 08:46:40 · answer #4 · answered by nmd_elkie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOD made love to let humans know what hate is .
For example how do u know what cleanliness is ?? you know that bec it's opposite ( dirty ) exists !
2007-01-20 08:46:57 · answer #5 · answered by OB5 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In order to have the chance to remove hatred from your heart by accepting and appreciating love.
2007-01-20 08:42:55 · answer #6 · answered by A Muslim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because He loves us, He wants us to love one another, and wants us to co-exist peacefully.
which all of us aren't these days......
2007-01-20 08:48:47 · answer #7 · answered by mArYaM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋