Love has been defined as a feeling, an attitude, or a presentation of feelings. We can define love however we want, but what does it truly mean? In this video, random people were asked this same question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9kDodq2x0
Love actually has many parts to it. It can encompass several feelings and attitudes. In this next video, Rob Bell describes some different styles of love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBhc6_bqP9s
We have been given the ability to love others in different ways, uniquely. In those relationships, we need to make sure we love others properly. There are other elements involved in how we love, like trust, mutual respect, and even sinful feelings.
In Galatians 5 Paul wrote,
13 For you were called to be free, brothers; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.[a] 15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.16 I say then, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.
Sometimes, what we want to say or feel about someone, is not how the Holy Spirit desires us to. God says love is sacrificially giving up of your own desires to in order to love others fully. Otherwise, we will just destroy each other emotionally.
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