Why do we Need to Love?

I heard some ask the question,

"Why Do We Love, Love... even when love seems to hate us?"

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

Because we don't really understand what love is. If we did then we would realize that love does in fact love us all equally and that we can't live without love. That is why we love love.

Also, it is not love that hates, but rather it is our own selfish nature that is guilty of hating. Harsh as that sounds.

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 *hits* us...it will rock our world.

Definition of Love

"Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.

It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly.

Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].

It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.

Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].

Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]."

(taken from the Amplified Version of the Holy Bible)

You can RUN but you CAN'T HIDE.....

Psalm 139

¹ O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.

² You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.

³ You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

⁴ Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.

⁵ You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.

⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,

¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

¹¹ If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"

¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

¹³ For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

¹⁶ your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

¹⁸ Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.

¹⁹ If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

²⁰ They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.

²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you?

²² I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.

²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

I Wish for You

I wish I could take it away for you;

All the pain and sorrow - that seems to torment you.

I wish I could say I’ve walked down that road;

Have it be enough to lighten your load.

I want so desperately to reach out in some way.

Try to comfort you and say,

“You can do it, I know you can.”

“Set your heart and take your stand.”

It’s just not that easy though.

This is some where only you can go.

As much as I hope and try;

I can only hope to stay close by.

Looking in on you through prayer;

In the morning and evening, with much care.

Trusting our Lord to take care of you

Believing him to see you through.

And so I shall do this with all of my might.

Remembering you, morning, noon and night.

So hold on to your faith - believe in the truth;

And remember that God will not forsake you.

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"Friendly Fire"

Can you imagine getting stabbed straight through the chest with a huge sword and not even feeling it?

At first you think it's shock. Then as time goes by you realize you still don't feel a thing.
You look down at your chest you see the sword... it's there, but no pain. "Hmm I guess I've just gotten used to it?"

You've been attacked like this before but normally it was in the heat of a battle.
Flaming arrows soaring throw through the air and you had your sword out fighting as well.

This time it just came out of nowhere. You didn't even see the sword. I think they call it friendly fire in now a days terms?
Although "friendly" fire...I don't know...standing here staring at this huge sword through my chest....trying to figure out how to best remove it.....that term just doesn't seem to fit.

Honestly.....I don't think I can remove this sword from my chest. I am going to have to get help. I don't just mean anybody's help either.... I am gonna need the Master's touch.

Even though I don't feel anything. I don't see any blood. Just the sword in my chest. It's a HUGE sword. There's no way I can carry on with life with it in my chest.

Can you imagine?

Just think about it for a moment. A person walking around trying to do day to day things with a huge sword sticking out of them; from their chest area? They just couldn't function right. Certainly wouldn't be able work; sitting in at my desk would be impossible. Think about sleeping...HA! Not! Couldn't lie down. Getting close to people would be near impossible as well.

Yep, definatley need to get this taken care of a.s.a.p.

And well....I can't see myself living with the memory of the sword flying through the air and stabbing straight in the heart either. THAT is definitely one I need to have the Master work on as well!

"Friendly Fire".... hmmmm people really NEED to be more care when they use their fire arms. Shooting off at the mouth can be lethal.

"The tongue has the power of life and death, " Proverbs 18:21

Thankfully, in this case I know the Great Physician and He can sew me right up!