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contemplations of love

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For all the cold that loneliness brings,  and when one learns to brave its sting
Then after a season of winter
Does not the fire of affection, gather our hearts attention ?

Eager to warm ones fingers by, then one becomes malcontent and cries
Going to greater lengths and extremes
to attain a gentle smile,
or even a harder won kiss lol

we can live weeks on a single smile.

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Affection has its place in love, yes. but, does it goes much deeper ?

When people commonly talk of love, they talk of the attraction, the game, the dance of life and movement of emotions and desire, or even in rarer cases commitment and devotion to an individual.

Yet our variant views of love, skew our view of God methinks. What is love to me... it does not matter. But God may have His say.

I am going to muse over the beginning of the most famous verse of the Bible stressing two words, that I think should be stressed just as importantly as the word love. and then digress into some miscellaneous thoughts.

For God so loved the World. That He gave His only begotten son...

Sacrifice: unmerited, selfless,humbling, sacrifice at great personal loss for the gain of the unworthy other. We have so much to learn of Love. Yet both parties gained something of this love. They gained each other. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed... He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied.    He gained us.


No man can love God first, because we hate Him. We hate him for putting us in this messed up cursed world, suffering things that we don't deserve, not giving us the things we need and want, we hate him because he is unfair, unjust, selfish, and cold.We hate his laws because we cannot keep them. We hate him because He is not like us, He doesn't care about us, and most of all He thinks He has a right to direct and control our lives and tell us what to do. He has no right...

The list goes on and on... and if we are really honest. This is how we naturally feel inside. of ourselves.

But He loves
with perfect love, and He initiates, He pursues,  & do not deny that God does not pursue us... for what is the cross ? But a blatant all out war in the pursuit of mankind  and the epic display of His Holy Love. His unfathomable demonstration of love for us, dying while we were still at war with Him in our hearts. He alone can reveal Himself ! We cannot pull the darkness from our own eyes, for we are the very children of darkness.  

There is an entire world that sees nothing more than a insignificant jewish zealot who foolishly allowed himself to die for nothing. And there are the others... who see an immortal God incarnate, bearing the weight and guilt of the world, purchasing eternal redemption for the unworthy masses, extinguishing the power of darkness and taking captivity captive, pouring out His soul unto death, making intercession for the transgressors, for ever sealing the fates of time and eternity, proving Himself worthy,preeminent, and Holy God.

And none of this would have known. Unless He had revealed it.

Appreciate the Word of God

//, for without it... I shudder to think of what it would be like.  //


I find it interesting, that both John 3:16 & Romans 5:8 weave the revelation of God's agape love towards man with the reality of sacrifice. The sacrifice to death. He humbled Himself to the death of a Cross. a death for the discarded, and disgraced.

Love is a heavy thing. For love will become those who believe, that is His promise. Be warned friend, When God gives you that new heart, you will begin to Love.

And it is blessed.
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love is such a heavy thing,
and with it comes a heavy price,
for every joy that it may bring,
it brings sorrow thrice.

and no matter what shadowed vale,
may darken the steps I trod,
or steely darts my heart impale,

Friend, It still hopes and trusts in God.

Young love can make the heart to sing
but for life, that will not  suffice,
for within our hearts sin does cling.

God alone, can melt the heart of ice.

And when the day comes my friend,
when no longer, tears flow free.
Pain and sorrow will come to an end,
By Him, we will Love for Eternity.
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brisni's avatar
:nod:

You're right.
We misunderstand love and have made it into something as deep as happiness, anger, sorrow, and other emotions.
But love is action.
"Although our feelings come and go, His love for us does not."