For a Christian, love is not just a noun it’s a verb that requires action. It is a noun because it is God Himself, “God is love.” 1 John 4:8. It is also a verb because it compels us to concretize it our lives and the lives of others. It is not just used as an excuse of our failure to love like Him. We say, “I am falling out of love, so I will break up with her.” It’s as if love is just a matter of falling, a word bound by gravity. But love, if real, defies the force of gravity. We find so many excuses because from the beginning we already have a different motive in leading someone to us. If our love is real, our motive has to be pure as possible. We are courting someone because we see in her a spark of the divine.
Love has been defined in such a way that it fits our own selfish desires. We relegated love in the realms of feelings and emotions and nothing more. So much that it means nothing when hardships come. Our love is the love of I, me and myself. If we don’t like the other anymore, if she is of no use anymore, if we don’t have the feelings anymore, we throw her out. But love, is not just a part of something, it is everything. When we love, we love the entire person not just the beautiful part of her but including the not so good of her. We cannot just say, “I love you because you have such a beautiful eye.” What if she gets blind? Love is wholesale not retail. Hindi patingi-tingi ang pag-ibig! Kung iibig ka, buo! You take her as a whole or not at all.
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(Source: skywalkerangelo)
1 year ago
