What Is Love ?
I recently found a book in an old house that’ll be gone before long, and as i flipped through its pages, i landed on a poem by Helen Steiner Rice titled,” What Is Love?”. Some dude named Henry Drummond pencilled in a forethought…” Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow.” This caused my eyebrows to rise a little and i could imagine that mouse in my brain pick up the pace a little on that wheel … “instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy…”…now there’s something many of us are probably experts at … allowing ourselves to be unhappy ! Huh ! We go into a different mode when the weekend is over and the need to resume our 8-5 begins once again … we complain, we find aches that weren’t there Saturday and Sunday, we automatically think about worse case scenarios and gripe about every little thing. In fact, we allow ourselves to be unhappy. So how do we get away from this mindset, this heart condition and stop allowing ourselves to be unhappy ? We can “love” more. Some of us need to be reminded of what “love” really is. What is love ? No words can define it, It’s something so great, Only God could design it … Wonder of Wonders, beyond man’s conception, And only in God can love find true perfection. … But love is enduring and patient and kind, It judges all things with the heart, not the mind. ( a couple of lines from the poem ) To know how to love our jobs, our coworkers, rush-hour traffic, our spouses, our friends, as well as our enemies, we must first, love God…with all of our heart, all of our soul, all of our mind and all of our strength ( Deuteronomy 6:4-7 ) … and then, love others as we love ourselves ( Matthew 22:39 ). This calls for putting others and their needs and desires BEFORE our own ( Philippians 2:3 ). Love is patient and kind…it’s not rude or self-seeking ( 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ). When we get tired of doing the same thing the same way, “receiving” the same results, we will make the necessary adjustments to bring about “change”. Loving God more, oughta catch us loving others more…like God designed it. And if we’re loving God and others more…the way God designed us to, we’ll notice our attitudes change concerning other actions and other matters. Work won’t be a begrudged chore, it’ll be a blessing from God that He wants to use as a vehicle to get His message delivered. We will see people at work that we won’t see on the weekends … and they’ll need to see and hear Jesus’ messages and be loved on, too. We can be happy when we’re producing the fruit of the Spirit…no matter where we are ( Galatians 5:22-23 ). Insteada complaining, let’s replace it with “love” ! Yes, love is beyond what man can define, For love is Immortal and God’s Gift is Divine ! Let’s try it, shall we ? And stop allowing ourselves to be unhappy !