What’s Love NOT Got to Do with it?

A few years ago there was a song, What’s love got to do with it. It seems that song indicated that love was nothing more than a second hand emotion. I thought it was cute then. Now, I think we set the stage for the cynicism, selfishness, and disconnectedness that plagues our society today. So…. I now ask the question, What’s Love NOT got to do with?

When I remember my parents and what they did for me, I can only ask, "What did love NOT have to do with it?" How does one put someone else’s interests ahead of his or her own and NOT love them? Now that I am a parent and I find myself GLADLY sacrificing for my children’s well-being and not even thinking about it, I ask, "What’s love NOT got to do with it?" And since my fracture, my wife’s self-less service to me and our family prompts me to ask, What’s Love NOT got to do with it? She gets little if anything for the extra running and effort she is putting forth, but she does it anyway. Why? CERTAINLY not because I deserve it – I most assuredly do NOT deserve it. Could it be that she does it because she loves me AND our family? What’s Love NOT got to do with it?

I think that a large part of the problem is that our definitions of love have become MUCH too shallow and self-engendered. We have defined love according to our personal perspectives. However, when I take a look at what I believe to be the Biblical definition of love, I get a whole different perspective of what love is (and is NOT).
I am going to do something that I am not at all comfortable doing…. I am going to end this week’s blog with a block of scripture. I hope you will come back and see what happens AFTER the block of scripture. Regardless, I am doing what I believe I must…. I pray that you will do the same….

The following scripture was extracted from www.rhymezone.com (URL: http://www.rhymezone.com/r/gwic.cgi?Word=_&Path=holy/newtestament/1corinthians/13//). The scripture is from 1st Corinthians 13: 4 – 13.

“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”