Define Love

What is love? We hear about it movies, books, music, stories, and so on. We hear about love, but I am confident that were I to ask a complete stranger on the street what love is, and they would be taken off guard. Partially because you are asking them and mostly because they don't know.

It's sad really that not many people do know what love is. True love, that is the essence of love is perfect, unconditional, and pure passion for another person. Humans are unable to show this kind of love to each other. We are imperfect and our lives are full of conditional circumstances.

Well, you may be wondering then what my point is then if no single person can offer perfect, unconditional, pure passionate love. My point is that only God can. Until a person realizes that they are imperfect and cannot offer another person what God has clearly given us, they will idolize a person. Then they will quickly learn that person cannot give them what they most desperately seek; unconditional love.

Now we think of passion as being physcial, hot, and heavy for another person. If you looked in a dictionary it would also mention sacrifice. Interesting. God is passionate because he sacrificed Himself in His perfect love for us because we are imperfect by nature. So, the next time you are looking for a good chick flick or a love story to fill a void, look no further. You'll find it every time in every page of the bible.