Let’s talk about love! Talk is cheap but talk about love is money in the bank. Talk to me about your love and let me improve your loving outlook. Yes, Dr. Love specializes in quality love advice; he loves listening “by the hour”. Recommending songs of love, puppy love, loving puppies. Tell him what you love and he’ll give you a strategy for loving it better. The condition of your love can be repaired under the condition that you continue to pay, lovingly. He creates love conditions; manufactures love connections. He can make the fantasy of love, easy like, easy peasy, easy day, easy money$. He can find your love, focus your love, or save your love. In fact with loving contributions he doesn’t need you at all in order to improve your ability to love. You gotta love, Dr. Love.
American culture has marketed love as fantasy, kindness, humanitarianism, sex. Love is the word we use to substitute for desire. It’s what you like, amplified. It’s the love of things; money, animals, cars. The love of people; family, friends, romantic interests; all mushed together in a confusing ball of emotional insecurity. People hate over love, kill over love until love sometimes resembles crazed obsession (because it sometimes is). The love we know is loosely similar to love but not nearly matching.
“Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13 (ASV). That really doesn’t sound so easy peasy, does it? The bible defines love this way: “God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him” 1 John 4:16 (ASV). And what’s the greatest example of love? John 3:16, of course, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.” There is very little resemblance in the “love industry’s” brand of love and the love of God. In fact, they are totally different in definition. The Greeks have four different words to explain what love is. They are phileo or emotional love, eros, which is sexual in nature, stergein, like the love between siblings and agapeo, which is the highest form of love. Agape is unconditional love or the love of God; it’s sacrificial. No further explanation needed. When God says He loves you, He doesn’t waver. All that He says He can do, He will do. There is no payment for His services and you don’t have to come back for periodic checkups but you’ll want to come back for the free refills. The only way we get to experience love is through the love of our God. We are incapable of it without Him. We merely fabricate hybrid love experiences. God is the “real” Doctor Love and in our efforts to manufacture love we produce something akin to love; something similar but never matching!
If God is love and you don’t have God, you don’t have the fullness of real love!
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