Love Seeketh Not Her Own
We seem to have confused a lot of different ‘stuff’’ as love. Wanting someone or something that is for someone else is not love – it is covetousness. When one desires someone else’s person, place or thing(s), one is breaking a commandment of Love – thou shalt not covet. When one desires sex out of wedlock, from anyone or anything, one is breaking one and maybe two commandments of Love - thou shalt have no other gods before me and thou shalt not commit adultery.
When we impose our desires and/or will over God’s, we place our desires and/or ourselves as gods.
As you consider the above, please consider it thinking of yourself and your alignment with God's will, not someone else. We should read the Bible as if we are looking in the mirror. James says in 1:23 and 24, "For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass...he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." We need to know what we are seeking from love and those around us, and examine our motives individually, not the motives of those around us.
About Me
- SamuelO
- I was born the last child in a relatively large family by today's standards. My father owned his own business and encouraged us to own our own businesses as well. I worked for my father's business after school, on weekends, and on holidays to ensure I learned HOW to work, and to ensure I had money. My father and mother sacrificed their dreams and aspirations to provide for their children and extended family members. This set the stage for many of the values that I fought vehemently to reject. Later in life, I have come to comprehensively embrace the values my parents demonstrated and sought to instill in me and my siblings.
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