While reading this story I found myself in shock and disbelief many times. As I read what these characters thought of love and the actions they said demonstrated this love. After reading this I realized how easy it is for people to distort and confuse the meaning and feeling of love. I believe the only way to know true love and to be able to love someone completely is to first become familiar with and know the love of our Father in heaven. God displayed His love for His people in many ways throughout the Bible and also now in the present. The only way to experience all the fullness and joy that comes from loving someone and being loved is to understand, from the source of life and love, how to properly and completely display this love. When people do not know this love it becomes very easy and very likely that they will distort it just as the characters in this story have done.
When it says in the story “Terri said the man she lived with before she lived with Mel loved her so much he tried to kill her” I was blown away at first to think that the actions she described could be considered love (901). As I read on, however, I realized that in one way or another all people who don’t know the love of the Father distort love in one absurd way or another. The best way to express love is not through words but through actions. If someone is so caught up in the world and all it says then they may think that love is all about them. Their partner should do everything they possibly can to make them happy. We see, however, in the Bible as Christ lived to serve others and serve God that love is about pleasing the other person and serving them.
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I absolutely agree with Love is action not words. For anyone can say I love you, but to put that in action would be as John 15:13 says. "Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends."
ReplyDeleteThe first thing that comes to mind when I read that last line is 'Christ came to serve, not to be served' which is so true. Christ laid down His life for the church which is how we show love to each other, that we are willing to lay down our lives for our friends. If the whole world lived like this how different would our society be??
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ReplyDeleteI thought I was the only one thinking something seemed a little fuzzy with some of the ideas of love that were being given. Very nice and thorough blog.
ReplyDeleteI loved this! Everything you said was so completely true! I thought the exact thing while reading this. God shows us what it means to truly love. There is no substitute. When people have not experienced the love of Christ, I think it is easy for them to distort the true meaning or else go their whole lives without really discovering what love is.
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