Define "True love"?

Question

What is it? How do you KNOW when you're "in it"? And is there ANYONE that you can say that's DEFINITELY the case about for you?

Answer 1

God’s Love: The Biblical Presentation

The modern message of the gospel is "God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life." However, our idea of "wonderful" and the world’s may be a little different. Take a sinner through the pages of the Book of Acts and show him the terrifying scene of boulders breaking the bones of Stephen. Then smile and whisper, "Wonderful..." Listen together to the sound of a cat-o’-nine-tails as it rips the flesh off the back of the apostle Paul. Follow together the word "suffering" through the Epistles, and see if you can get the world to whisper, "Wonderful!"

After such a ride down Honesty Road, they may think the pleasures of sin are a little more attractive than the call to "suffer affliction with the people of God." John MacArthur said, "We need to adjust our presentation of the gospel. We cannot dismiss the fact that God hates sin and punishes sinners with eternal torment. How can we begin a gospel presentation by telling people on their way to hell that God has a wonderful plan for their lives?"

Who in the world is going to listen if we are so blatantly honest about the Christian life? Perhaps not as many as are attracted by the talk of a wonderful plan. However, the answer to our dilemma is to make the issue one of righteousness, rather than happiness. This is what Jesus did. He used the Ten Commandments to show sinners the righteous standard of God (Luke 10:25,26; 18:18– 0). Once the world sees the perfect standard by which they will be judged, they will begin to fear God, and through the fear of the Lord, men depart from sin (Proverbs 16:6). They will begin to hunger and thirst after the righteousness that is in Jesus Christ alone.

If you study the New Testament you will see that God’s love is almost always given in direct correlation to the cross: herein is love, for God so loved, God commended His love, etc. (See John 3:16; Romans 5:5,6,8; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 2:4,5; 5:2,25; 1 John 3:16; 4:10; and Revelation 1:5, among others.) The cross is the focal point of God’s love for the world. How can we point to the cross without making reference to sin? How can we refer to sin without the Law (Romans 7:7)?

The biblical way to express God’s love to a sinner is to show him how great his sin is (using the Law—see Romans 7:13; Galatians 3:24), and then give him the incredible grace of God in Christ. This was the key to reaching so many on the Day of Pentecost. They were "devout" Jews who knew the Law and its holy demands, and therefore readily accepted the mercy of God in Christ to escape its fearful wrath. When you use the Law to show the world their true state, get ready for sinners to thank you. For the first time in their lives, they will see the Christian message as an expression of love and concern for their eternal welfare, rather than of merely proselytizing for a better lifestyle while on this earth.

Answer 2

True love is when you really want to spend the rest of your life with that person, you want to be there for them and you would do anything for them even if it meant your own life. When you try to explain or show just how you feel about them, you can't find words to say, or actions to do. Basically When you think there's gotta be a better step to show them justhow much you love them after sex, when it's not enough to describe how you feel. When youwouldn't ever contemplate not being with them or cheating on them if you're in a relationship with them. If you're away from them it hurts so much inside that words just don't explain properly. True love can only be experienced with one other person; your soul mate. Most people don't meet theirs, so instead they just settle for what they think will do and just experience love.

Answer 3

There are two reasons why you love a person, either you love them for who they are as a person, or you love the way they treat you. Like maybe a guy is great but he treats you like crap, or a guy is kind of a loser but he treats you like gold. Most of the time it's unbalanced like that. In almost every relationship I can think of, one person has one thing going and the other has the opposite. Or maybe both people suck but they treat each other well. You are feeling true love for someone when you like who they are and how they treat you, and if they feel the same then THAT is true love. For example I have a bf who treats me well but he is an ex-con who is on a third strike, so I don't think he is my true love. I am bigger than the girls he usually dates, but I treat him well, so I don't think I am his true love either because he normally wouldn't be with a girl like me.

Now if he were with a more attractive girl who treated him well, and I had a more respectable guy who treated me well like he does, then THAT would be true love.

Answer 4

"If i speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love,i am only resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If i have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and i have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, i am nothing. If i give all posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,but have not love, i gain nothing. 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.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

Answer 5

Trust me i'm in it and have been for a while and it feels just as strong as it did when i first met him.

True love is when two souls connect on such a deep level that they almost become one, and nothing can ever get in the way of that a love that is selfless, and beautiful and where both people grow together.

Answer 6

a real pal is one which could supply corporation that could be useful you seek your happiness devoid of any egocentric reason. lots of the situations what is going by making use of the term "pal" potential having some common hobbies ( Like birds flock at the same time). yet once you stumble on somebody who retains corporation for the easy reason which you would be chuffed in a manner that contains happiness of all the universe and exclude none, he's your real pal for he enables you in uncovering your "real" nature.

Answer 7

True love is when you know you can trust the person you are with. You can communicate easily with them, tell them your feelings, share your dreams etc etc

It is just one of those things that you know.

I thought so recently, but no. He found someone else. Someone who lived inthe same state as him.

Answer 8

To have really experienced love you will know it......you feel good about yourself and the person you are with............love also hurts......I'm sure you've been told.........and it is painful too when it ends.......but when you're in it it feels soooo good!
Everything around you takes on a whole new meaning when you're in love.........there is no mistake about it!

Answer 9

true love does not anticipate any thing in return. in true love selfishness does not exist. it can be compared to the whiteness of a swan and coolness of the full moon light.

Answer 10

When you can't stop thinking of the person, and you let the little mistakes slide with that person.