what is love ?

Answer 1

GOD.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

Love is what I have for my fiance, and that is True Love. As someone else up there said, "How many people would die for you besides jesus". Well i would die for my fiance, and he would die for me. We love each other that much. I'm sorry if you haven't found that yet but hopefully some day you will. Love is wanting to be with someone and needing someone so much that you cannot be without them. You would do anything for them, and they would do anything for you.


Edit: I could probably write a novel on what I think about love, but I'll leave it at that. If you want to give me thumbs down for not believing that god is love, go ahead, because I'll still have love and that's more important.

Answer 4

The gifts that come from love are many here are a few. forgiveness, patience, kindness, love for truth, love for justice, love for the best in a person, loyalty at any cost, belief in a person no matter what,love does not allow for..jealousy, envy, pride, a naughty, selfishness, rudeness, a demand for ones own way, irritability, grudges.

Answer 5

"If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell. And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end. For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true: But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary. When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child. For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me. But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love."

Hope that clears it up for you.

Answer 6

Love is defined in 1 Corithians 13 of the Bible...in 1 John 4:8 says God is Love, not that he has love but he himself is love.

I guess God's love (Agape) is the highest form of love. It is love based on principles...loving but being just.

Answer 7

When you care so much it hurts,the most wonderful feeling on earth and you feel like you are floating some times.It is careing and compassion and passion and give and take and getting through the tough times but still loving each other or extreme caring and playing together and laughter and sex if it is partners and fighting but making up.its beauty and happiness and sadness at times,but bouncing back it is one ness with the other

Answer 8

In a simplified answer it is putting another or others ahead of you. Discovering that your own personal needs do not have to be the driving force but the needs of others you are in contact with. When looked at in this way is it any wonder there are so many marriages and relationships in trouble.

Answer 9

love is the how you feel good to another one person that you think you can give all in your life to ....
love could be another thing that god had designed for human and tried to make human being peaceful on earth, and give peace to each other. all things by being human mostly god designed to give human know how to love and how to give to each other, no one can live without love, even you hate but you can not get away from love

Answer 10

Try the Greek word for it: Agape

So many different forms of the word love in scripture....it's beautiful when you break it down in the Greek language.

Try looking it up in an internet dictionary.

Answer 11

A man hanging on a cross carrying all of the sins ever committed by anyone upon His back, and dying a death that isn't even deserving of the worst of us. That is love. That is Christ.