This is the first post that I'm blogging. Set up my blog 2 years ago..heh and I think this is a good time to start using this blog. 2009 has been an eventful year..so many things that have happened...success..mistakes.. At the end of the day I think it's good to be thankful to God for all the little things that He has blessed us. The bible says to be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving present your requests to God. I think it's true that no matter what kinds of situations you are going through, what kinds of mistakes you have made...we should always learn to thank God that He is still faithful and still present in the midst of our situations. No matter how troubled we are...we can still put our faith in God.
Lately I've been asking myself what is love really. Sometimes I think all of us have a misrepresentation of this issue. We think that to love someone..to love God..involves doing a lot for that person. For many of us I think....love=work. That's why so many people burn out in ministry after serving for many years..hoping that whatever we are doing will reap a harvest. But what if everything that you are doing at the end of the day doesn't yield anything? Will you stop loving God? Will you stop loving?
The bible says in 1 Corinthians that love is not self seeking (NIV)....that means that love does not demand anything in return...and love at the end of the day I feel is not about how much you do but about the well being of the person..it is about loving God, loving a person for who that person is.
The bible talks about love in different ways and I find an underlying theme.
1 Cor 15:13..Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
John 3:16...For God so love the world that He gave his only son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
In these 2 verses...we see that love is about giving..not just about doing. Yea..it's about doing..but not so much. Confused? Don't be. There is a juxtaposition of work and no work. In both of these verses the bible says that we give what matters to us away when we love.. Sometimes when we think we love, we are actually doing something in the hope that we can get something in return. But God is teaching us that to love involves letting go.
What else can you still give away other than your life? Hey I'm not telling you to commit suicide or something....but what is life really? I think to bring it down to a more relevant understanding is that life involves your needs, your desires..your interests. So in loving, what God is trying to say is that we should love in a way that we don't ask for anything in return. Loving is about giving. Work has a connotation that it demands something in return but love does not demand. Sometimes we "love"/"work" because we are insecure and our actions are just ways to cover that insecurity. But it is not true to the other extreme that love doesn't involve work at all. Because when we love someone we serve that person..and we need to find a balance in doing things for that person and just loving that person. Being in that state of love, loving that person is far more important in trying to prove something. In conclusion I think love is about giving something that matters a lot to you so that it can benefit the other person even if it is at your own expense.
I'd like to leave you with this question..
Will you still love if you will not benefit from it at the end of the day?
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