What the World needs Most

       Is Love Sweet Love

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You may be a skeptic. 

I wouldn't blame you. 

Let me just share with you if I may 😊

Someone asked me the other day,

"Why do we love, love - even when love seems to hate us?"

I thought about it for a moment and then this came to me.

We love, love - even when love seems to hate us ~ because 

We don't really understand what love is. 

If we did then we would realize that contrary to popular opinion, 

love does not hate us. 

No. Rather it is our own selfish nature that is guilty of hating. Harsh as that sounds.

(Websters dictionary defines "hate" as an extreme dislike or aversion for something.)

In this case it is we, ourselves, after we have been hurt, let down, disappointed, devastated and  betrayed  who have an extreme aversion towards love.

I could write on this subject for a long time.

Bottom line here is that we get hurt.

When we get hurt the natural instinctive process is to put up walls.

Walls around our heart and life. Some more than others.

We all handle hurt differently and in varying degrees.

 Once the walls go up that's when the vicious cycle of unsuccessful interpersonal relationships begins.

Be they, our family, friends, romantic partners or even work related relationships.

When we place those walls up, it affects every one of those relational areas of our lives.

How we respond in trust and our ability to commit and be accountable.

The fundamental character traits of any substantial, 
worth while relationship based on love.

Although we as humans have grown accustom to, even dependent in some cases, on love being a two way road.

The truth of the matter is - love in perfection is a one way road.

 Our most glorious and ever loving creator, Lord, Holy Father and God of all,

 made that perfectly clear in His exemplary model of love which He gave us through the gift of His only begotten Son 

Jesus our Messiah.

Not to say that we should not have anyone love us back. 

That is not what I am saying at all. 

In fact the Word of God tells us,  He (God) saw Adam was alone, and saw it was not good so He gave him a partner.

What I am saying is that if we were to gain a true, more perfect understanding of the definition of the "one way love" that is spoken of in the letter Paul wrote to the Corinthians. Exercised it, expecting nothing in return with everyone in our family, our partners, our neighbors, co-workers, etc.

I truly believe we would not be disappointed.

Even more, we would be blessed beyond that which we could even imagine.

You see, God created us to love.  

That is why we love - love.

So naturally, we all desire love. 

Love doesn't hate us.

In fact love - loves us, and loves us all equally. 

 That is why we can't live without love.

If we take a moment to really look and meditate on what true love is 

(a perfect definition is found in the word of God 1 Cor ch 13 below ) 

When the epiphany - the revelation *hits* - it will rock your world.

Love

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.  If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part,  but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.  For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.