What is Love?

What is Love? Is it just an emotional feeling? Can we know true love? There are numorous questions that come up when you think of love. We all want to be loved, we want people to care for us. Its something we all long for in life - To be loved. So where does one find love? Is it something we can buy from the shop? Is it something we can earn? Love is a gift from God, in fact the Bible says that “Love is of God.” (1 John 4:7)

So how can we know what true love is if we don’t know the Love of God? The whole world is looking for love in all the wrong places, they go to nightclubs, pubs, blind dates, etc. to find true love, yet in most cases they only end up breaking their hearts and are left feeling hurt and empty inside.

The love portrayed in movies and tv is all superficial. It’s not real love. Real love doesn’t come from the world it comes from God above. He is the source of Love and until we look to Him for the Love that He offers us, we will never know the Love of God. So let me share with you the Love of God.

Firstly, God’s love has no end, He loves us with an everlasting love. The bible says “For God so Loved the World, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16)

Unlike the world, God not only tell us that He loves us, but has proved His Love for us by sending His one and only Son to die on the cross in order to pay the price for our sins that we might have eternal life.

How many people do you know that you would be willing to lay your life down for? It would have to be someone you love so much to even consider doing that. But would you be willing to lay down your life for your enemies? Not only die in their place, but to also forgive them - holding no grudges or anger? That’s crazy right?

Well for us as humans, that seems crazy, but that’s exactly what Jesus Christ did for us. “But God demonstrates his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:8.