Love, Love, Love

Love, Love, Love…

Feel awkward to see the title? Yeah, naturally, why some word has to be repeated three times? Probably just to capture your attention. Don’t you think this group of four letters L O V E is the most wonderful and most important thing in the world?
Wisdom, knowledge, faith, hope and many other great virtues and spiritual achievements are just dwarfs before this small thing called “Love.”(Cf 2 Cor. 13:2) It is everywhere, in every person, every creature and in everything that exists, because “it is out of love that God created the world.” In the absence of love, the life is not ‘life.’ This small little thing is so important, yet we rarely give it a deep thought. Can you name me anybody, anything or any creature that is totally strange to this thing called ‘Love?’ you know it is because of your love for wisdom or knowledge that you keep on reading things like this article.
Can you name me anybody, anything or any creature that is totally strange to this thing called ‘Love?’Love can be defined in different ways, depending on the context. It has got sifferent meanings. For instance, love between, so-called “lovers” has different meaning whereas love between parents and children has different meaning, et cetrea. Probably you know all these types love already and may be you will be irritated at my lack of knowledge in detail about all these. But have you noticed one thing? All these kinds of love are conditioned by time, place and situation, hence not long lasting. Yet they are adequately sufficient to give us some idea about Love.
You must have experienced love from your parents, love from your kiths and kins, even love from “friends.” But you must have realized that love of these persons in our life is not ever lasting, or at least not lasting for long. If we go to “ultimate cause” of love, we find that ‘God is the source of all love, only His love is everlasting. Real thing starts now, He says, “I loved you with an everlasting love.” (Jer. 31:3b) We have a door opened to us for everlasting love, just free of any cost, so, should we run behind anything else that is temporary and lasting?
Though we are not worthy, yet He has called us to be the instruments of His everlasting, unconditional love. And it is because of this love that we are called children of God. “See what love Father has given us that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are.” (1 Jn 3:1). It is not that God has suddenly started to love us, but He has been loving us from the very beginning. Our very existence is because of His love for us. “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.” (Rom. 5:5).
Have we ever realized the presence of His precious love in our hearts? If we have realized than it is our bounden duty to express this love through our actions and our behaviour and if still we have no serious interest in feeling and experiencing His love then “get up and come back to Him and ask Him to give us grace to experience His love because if we don’t experience His True love that what else id there to speak about, to the people in our life to come?