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I Know What Love Is…


  You may have seen the recent commercial by the Ad Council
 that tells us love has no limits.  It shows people behind an x-ray screen embracing only showing their skeletal outlines.  The people emerge from the behind to reveal they are a same sex couple, to a cheering crowd.  The scene is redone with people of different races, religions and ages.  Each one is accompanied by the lines; love has no gender, love has no race, love has no disability, love has no religion, love has no labels.  The ad campaign claims to combat what is seen as bias in our world today.

  It got me to thinking about how the world is trying to redefine love. We hear the argument in our world to today; How a person can be against two people who love one another? To try to put limits on love is wrong.

  But how does the Bible label love?

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1st Corinthians 13:4-7

  Some things stick out to me in this passage are in conflict with the world’s definition of love.  The world says you should cheer when someone is in sin, but Biblical love does not rejoice in unrighteousness.  The world says love can act anyway it wants, but Biblical love never acts unbecomingly.  The world says should be proud of your lifestyle, but Biblical love does not brag.  The world says you are offensive and should be shunned if you don’t accept what is accepts, but Biblical love does not take into account a wrong suffered.  The world says you should accept any belief no matter if it is valid or not, but Biblical love rejoices with truth.

  There is a saying, “He who controls the language, controls the masses”.  When it comes to love, who makes the definition, God, who is love, or the world who does not know him?  

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
1st John 2:15-16


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