Love is the most important thing in my life. That may seem crazy for a 14 year old boy to say, but I have thought alot about what is important, and what isn't in this world, and I decided that if there is one thing that makes everything else worth while, it has to be love. Someone asked me one time that if there were no God, would love still be important, and I had to say yes. Then they asked me if there were no love, would God still be important, and I had a hard time with that answer, but I finally had to say no, that if there were no love anywhere, then even God would have no imortance anymore. I am glad that that person asked me this question, cause it made me realize just how important Love really is. That person, by the way, was my dad. He is the greatest man, besides Jesus, I have ever known, and I love them both sooooo much. ;-)
A dictionary defines love as: "strong affection or liking for someone or something; a sweetheart or lover; to have sexual intercourse." I have a problem with all of those answers. If I were going to try and define what love is, I would say that it is: having a feeling of compassion and caring for someone or something. Love is when you care as much about someone else as you do your own self.
What does the Bible say about love? The Bible talks about love alot, but as much as it says, most people don't seem to really listen to what God thinks about love. They pick out the other verses that talks about what we should or shouldn't do, and then they use those to tell other people what they are doing wrong. I don't think that is what God wants us to do at all. I think God wants us to use what he tells us to be the best people that we can be, and then just to LOVE everyone else. In 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, the Bible also defines what Love is, and it goes like this:
Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant; 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 truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. LOVE NEVER FAILS.
Now that is what I call a definition of love. If everyone would simply carry that definition of love around with them in their pockets and read it and think about it over and over, maybe we wouldn't have all the hate that we do in this world.
I know that I feel God's love, cause sometimes when I think about Him or the other people in this world that I love so much, it makes me start crying it feels so strong. I don't think love is about how others make us feel, I think love is about how we feel about others, and how we make them feel. And sex...sex is not love at all. Sex is a physical thing that feels good, but it is also about how we feel inside, and not about how others feel. God made love, and he made sex too, but the bible says that sex is something that is used to show special love for another person that you have chosen as your life long partner or mate, the person you choose to marry, which is why it's wrong not to let gay people make that same choice of who they really love, just like all the heterosexuals get to do.
In Mark 12:28-31, the Bible tells that the greatest commandments that God ever gave us was to love Him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and that we are suppose to love our neighbor as ourself. In Matthew 5:43-48, it also says to love even your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. So if we use the love in 1 Corinthians as to how we should treat everyone, including our enemies, then we have no way to be mean, selfish or judgmental to anyone.
I listen to the TV evangelistic station and I hear about the Christian Rights, which says we as Christians have to reach out with Gods love and show the sinners how to find god, but what ends up happening is that a bunch of Christians go around telling everyone else what they are doing wrong, but I don't think that is real love. I think the only "Right" a Christian has is to use real love to accept everyone, and then use their loving example to show others how to be a Christian, and not just point a finger in their face and say, "You are GAY, you will burn in hell, and oh, by the way, I love you." Yeah, right, that don't feel like love to me. Read 1 Corinthians again!!!!!
I am only a kid, but I don't understand how I can see things about love that even the grownups can't see. Why? We live in a world where we build skyscrapers and send space ships to other planets, costing millions and even billions of dollars, but yet there are people around this world, even right here in the United States, who are starving to death, and who don't have good clothes to wear. Can anyone explain that to me? I think we all have choices of what is important and what isn't, and I think too many people have chosen the wrong things to Rule their lives. I think too many people have chosen sex, or drugs, or power, or money to rule their lives. Personally, I love God and everyone else enough not to let those things Rule me. In my life, LOVE RULES, and I hope if you see my way of thinking, you will let LOVE RULE your life too...but if you don't....I will still love you anyway.
LOVE RULES
~ Garith ~
