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February 14, 2014
Making Love
A love message from John, “Dear friends, since
God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one
has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is
made complete in us. (1 Jn 4:11-12 NIV)
Love in the modern language is misunderstood word. Love making, has become common. It is not the Love that Christ talked about, but it is the word that Satan makes us use often in different context. It could mean neutrality of every thing except Loving Jesus as one should. Let Love be expressed with the deep meaning of Christ in the center.
-----The Bible refers to God more often as “Love”, and Christ as the “Truth”. It’s a bit metaphorical of the fact that you can not love without truth. If love is nothing but benefiting the loved one, then just any benefit is not love unless that benefit is truly proper. -----How would a benefit not be proper? I benefit my wife with pleasures which would be just as pleasurable to someone else. But the pleasures to someone else would not be proper because they would not be fitting of the situation. I am married to Char. The marriage is a set of attitudes and agreements we share with each other and the Lord, from whom we have indeed learned them. Then again, if two people agree that marriage is not necessary for pleasures to be pleasurable, or that in finding a mate to marry I find a handsome man and proclaim we two men can benefit each other just the same as a man and a woman - being as pleasurable to each other as well - the truths of these in a limited context can be served. This is why the world is so messed up. No situation's context is limited by man. That is horrifically problematic to the sloppy applications of our "love concepts". We created nothing out of nothing, nor can we control much more of what the Lord created out of nothing. It is not by our prerogative that contexts are limited or expanded. Such is by the prerogative of Him who created. That is the truth. And the truth is that all situations have to do with the glorifying of God - Love - through Jesus Christ - Truth. Therefore, only love which extends into situations according to His prescriptions for that situation is love. Love depends upon the truth. -----The truth examines all the elements and facets of a situation, among which is always the Lord, and then presents good sense as to what actually will benefit everything of it. Love then seeks to make such benefit, or prays for it to be made if it can not attain it. -----I, too, pine the lack of more precise English words to differentiate the general applications of love like Greek does. But, on the other hand, the Greek dissection of the overall servitude nature of love into categories for friends, family, romance, and agape obscures the fact that love is the most fundamental attitude of life connected to life by truth prescribing a particular form of its expression for any given situation. Then I am thankful English uses only one word for love. This forces the serious student of life to understand that truth and love are two parts of a more fundamental concept like “heads” and “tails” are two sides of the same coin participating in everything the coin does.
3 comments:
Love in the modern language is misunderstood word. Love making, has become common. It is not the Love that Christ talked about, but it is the word that Satan makes us use often in different context. It could mean neutrality of every thing except Loving Jesus as one should.
Let Love be expressed with the deep meaning of Christ in the center.
Seker,
Thanks for joining in the conversation. Satan has indeed ruined a lot of good words and twisted their meanings.
Gail
Gail;
-----The Bible refers to God more often as “Love”, and Christ as the “Truth”. It’s a bit metaphorical of the fact that you can not love without truth. If love is nothing but benefiting the loved one, then just any benefit is not love unless that benefit is truly proper.
-----How would a benefit not be proper? I benefit my wife with pleasures which would be just as pleasurable to someone else. But the pleasures to someone else would not be proper because they would not be fitting of the situation. I am married to Char. The marriage is a set of attitudes and agreements we share with each other and the Lord, from whom we have indeed learned them. Then again, if two people agree that marriage is not necessary for pleasures to be pleasurable, or that in finding a mate to marry I find a handsome man and proclaim we two men can benefit each other just the same as a man and a woman - being as pleasurable to each other as well - the truths of these in a limited context can be served. This is why the world is so messed up. No situation's context is limited by man. That is horrifically problematic to the sloppy applications of our "love concepts". We created nothing out of nothing, nor can we control much more of what the Lord created out of nothing. It is not by our prerogative that contexts are limited or expanded. Such is by the prerogative of Him who created. That is the truth. And the truth is that all situations have to do with the glorifying of God - Love - through Jesus Christ - Truth. Therefore, only love which extends into situations according to His prescriptions for that situation is love. Love depends upon the truth.
-----The truth examines all the elements and facets of a situation, among which is always the Lord, and then presents good sense as to what actually will benefit everything of it. Love then seeks to make such benefit, or prays for it to be made if it can not attain it.
-----I, too, pine the lack of more precise English words to differentiate the general applications of love like Greek does. But, on the other hand, the Greek dissection of the overall servitude nature of love into categories for friends, family, romance, and agape obscures the fact that love is the most fundamental attitude of life connected to life by truth prescribing a particular form of its expression for any given situation. Then I am thankful English uses only one word for love. This forces the serious student of life to understand that truth and love are two parts of a more fundamental concept like “heads” and “tails” are two sides of the same coin participating in everything the coin does.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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