What Love Really Is

Before explaining what I believe love really is I'd like to make note of what I believe love is not.

Love is not a warm fuzzy feeling or a feeling of strong or constant affection for another. That's not what Love looks like!

What then does Love look like?

It's your birthday and you were given a year's membership to a local gym. A few days later you go to the gym and work out for a while. You finish your workout, go home, and look in the mirror. You don't see any change. You return to the gym the next day for another workout and again return home to the same mirror, and again you notice no change.

After a few weeks of going to the gym regularly however you begin to see and feel a change, and you notice that the more you work at it the more change you are seeing. The same can be said for anything that you desire and are truly dedicated to.

What Then Is Love? Love is an conscious decision, it is a commitment to care for another no matter what!

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)

Then said Jesus, Father forgive them for they know not what they do. (Luke 23:34)

I take you to be my lawfully wedded (wife/husband), to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.

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God's chosen people turned their backs on their Lord God time and time again throughout their history, yet He always gives them a way back to Him.

In fact God gives the entire world population, in spite of their pride, greed, lust, and self serving natures, an opportunity to come back to Him with a clean slate.

THAT'S WHAT REAL LOVE LOOKS LIKE!

What is called love today is a sham! (as is made evidenced by the number of divorce lawyers, over-packed divorce courts, divorce rate, and broke ex-husbands in America today) People don't FALL out of love, they CHOOSE not to care any longer because things are working out as they thought. Which actually translates into narcissism.

Subsequently, I believe that Love is simply the absence of narcissism and the commitment to care for someone in spite of your feelings!