[Blog] The Ultimate LOVE

Love is a many splendored thing. Love is blind. Love moves in mysterious ways. Love hurts. Love is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. Love is a feeling. Love is full of mystery.

Love. Love. Love. We all want love. We all want to be loved. All we need is love. Love is all we need.

Our family is our immediate source of love by default and I guess, we have no choice. As we learn to socialize at an early age, our playmates become our source of love. When we start going to school, it becomes our second home thus our teachers and classmates become our source of love. As we get older, the people we meet along the way become our love source but truth be told, we don't really have the true experience of love.

Why do we get hurt? Why do we cry? Why is there pain in love? Why? Why? Why? This is because we have people and material stuff as our source. And I will say it once more...anything that is not founded in Christ Jesus will eventually crumble and is bound to destruction.

In life where there is too much pressure, complaints, disheartening, suffering, disappointments and heartaches, is there even a glimpse of hope? Is there really anything that can be called love? Is there LOVE at all? YES. There is hope. There is LOVE and this kind of love was pierced on the cross more than 2,000 years ago.

When the Father sent His only begotten Son, that is LOVE. When the Son obeyed what the Father commanded Him to do while on earth, that is LOVE. When the Son fulfilled the plan of the Father, that is LOVE. When the Son endured the pain as being scourged, that is LOVE. When the Son spilled His blood for our salvation, that is LOVE. When no condemnation and that we are accepted for who we are, that is LOVE. When ALL our sins have been forgiven, that is LOVE.

How dare we chase for temporal love when that kind of LOVE is available. How can we long for a love that easy gets spoiled or rotten when there's EVERLASTING LOVE?

It's true that love is in us but only God's love that is steadfast and does not change its temper. God's love is unconditional and that is the only love I know that will stand the test time. God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8) --- this is the the most sincere and truest kind of love.

LOVE is a decision not just a mere feeling -- something that we don't deserve, something unmerited yet freely given to us by God. That is the only love I know that will pay for our shortcomings, debts, transgressions, addictions, bondage and sins. No one can top the love that only God can give.

Now that we know what LOVE is, how then should we love? I found the answer to that and it is said:

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. (Romans 12:9-13)

Truth sets us free and now that the truth has been told about love, it's our turn to demonstrate LOVE for each other.