Who Gets to Have the Final Say on What Love Is?
When we understand a meaning of a word, we can replace that word with it’s meaning in a sentence while keeping the full integrity of the intended context. This is one way comprehension is measured in education systems across the world. One should be able to communicate a definition without using the word itself in the definition also.
Many people proudly profess that “God is Love” as a
reference to a precept (1 John 4:8 and 1 John 4:16). This is true, but what
does this mean? How do we know that God is Love without knowing what Love is?
Who truly understands what Love is? Then who truly understands who God
is?
We have a requirement among us in the earth that we ought
to say “I love you” to the people (we think) we love. Otherwise, they may not
know that we love them.
First of all, Love does not desire a mandatory, scripted,
automatic recital of tradition posing as affection. That’s exactly how the
world has lost Love; by settling for hearing the word “love” only.
Moreover, let’s try replacing the word “Love” in the
sentence “I Love you” with “God”: The sentence would then be “I God you”.
Does “I God you” have a meaning? Can someone interpret what
“I God you” means? Does anyone know God well enough to be given authority to
offer a concluded answer?
Perhaps there could be a prophet living in our time right
now that could ask about such a thing on our behalf. This is the will of Jesus
that we understand what Love is being that He has commanded us to Love one
another; therefore, we must know and understand what Love is in order to keep
this commandment. We should all ask Him
to bless our hearts with confirmed understanding.
Another biblical explanation of Love is written in 2 John
1:6, saying: And this is
Love, that we walk after His commandments…
I encourage you to kindly, please review the ten
commandments in Exodus chapter 20 and compare to what Jesus says are the two
greatest commandments in Matthew 22:37-40. Please do also note how he says that
the two great commandments of Love that fulfills all the law and the prophets.
How is this so?
The first and great commandment is to Love Ishi with all
your heart. Compare this to the first five of the ten commandments. This is how
you love Ishi with all your heart: 1. Do not put other gods before Him. 2.
Do not provoke Him with graven images. 3. Do not use His name out of context.
4. Rest on the Seventh Day. 5. Hearken to the voice of your parents and treat
them as best as you know how to treat anyone.
The second commandment that Jesus gave, which He said
compares to the first is that we are to Love our neighbor the way we Love our
own selves. Now let’s compare the next five of the ten commandments. This is
how you Love your neighbor as yourself:1. Do not kill each other. 2. Do not
break each other’s hearts by adultery. 3. Do not take someone’s things from
them. 4. Do not deceive each other. 5. Do not desire to have someone else’s
things.
Now let’s try our word replacement exercise with the
sentence “I Love you”. In this case we will use the 2 John 1:6 definition of
Love which would be in the verb form. The sentence will now be: I walk after
the commandments you.
The reason “I God you” does not make any sense in English
is because in this case we are meaning the name God as a noun and Love in the
context “I Love you” is in the form of a verb. When we get to know Ishi better,
we will know Him as a noun, as a verb and as many other forms of which a list
thereof would continue for eternity.
We can also now see how to convert the noun Love into
action Love. This will be necessary to keep the commandment of Jesus as He has
commanded us to Love one another.
Loving one another means paying very close attention to
commandments 6-10. Jesus wants us to be kind and tender toward one another;
even to our enemies, he wants us kind and tender. Please do not despise His
method. He is the King of all kings. His methods work with All Power!
Going forward, when you think of the ten commandments,
please always remember to think of them as The Commandments of Love and
never again forget what Love is.
Wow.. I absolutely love this.. oh.. I absolutely God this! Shalom
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