All of us want to be loved. There's a need instilled within us that just strives for attention and love. Lots of people get like and love all mixed up. You can like someone, but not love them. Or, you can love someone and not really like how they are.

Love, in the secular sense, is sometimes mistaken to always be intimacy with someone. That is not always the case. We can have an affection for someone, feel very close to them, as in our siblings, parents, or kinfolks. Then, there is the attraction we feel toward someone, as if we feel a oneness with them ,someone with whom we would like to spend our life.

There is a closeness we feel with someone, when we really love them. When they hurt, we hurt. When they have problems, it hurts us to . . .

All of us want to be loved. There's a need instilled within us that just strives for attention and love. Lots of people get like and love all mixed up. You can like someone, but not love them. Or, you can love someone and not really like how they are.

Love, in the secular sense, is sometimes mistaken to always be intimacy with someone. That is not always the case. We can have an affection for someone, feel very close to them, as in our siblings, parents, or kinfolks. Then, there is the attraction we feel toward someone, as if we feel a oneness with them ,someone with whom we would like to spend our life.

There is a closeness we feel with someone, when we really love them. When they hurt, we hurt. When they have problems, it hurts us to see them in that shape. We feel we would love to just take their place, in some situations, although we know we can't.

With God, love is different. God IS love. The foundation of Christianity if built around love. God said to ?love thy neighbor as thyself?. That is the second commandment, with the first commandment being ?love the Lord thy God with all thy heart?.

The love of God transcends any love that the human mind could comprehend. It is the Supreme love of God, for He loved us so much, He gave His only Son, that we might be saved and enjoy eternity with Him. No other love on earth could do this. No other love could give us assurance that we are accepted into His Kingdom forever and ever. Nothing can separate us from the love of God, when we set our minds to serve Him, and keep His Word.

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:39

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. - 1 John 2:5

Copyright 2005 by Barbara Sanders, Empire, AL. Used by permission.
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