What is Love?

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What is love?  

 

This single word is the source of countless definitions, songs, writings, and endeavors.  

We analyze it, re-analyze it, put it in a box, and then decide it can’t be put in a box.

 

Is it knowledge?  Or is it feeling? Is it containable or quantifiable?  

 

If you are looking for the one and only tried and true definition of love, you won’t find it here.  

 

I would refer you to other sources for a good definition, such as the one found in the bible in 

I John 4:7-21

 

In the midst of this text you will find this short but powerful definition.

 

“God is love.”      I John 4:8

 

God is infinitely greater than we are and beyond our understanding.  It stands to reason we can’t fully grasp love. Still, it is important to acknowledge love in at least two aspects, that of knowledge and feeling.  Knowledge of God’s love is spelled out for us in the pages of the Bible. It has been called His love letter to us, His proclamation of His love for us.  It is important to hide God’s word in our hearts, to “know” His love, because we will not always “feel loved.” Whether or not we “feel” loved, does not change the truth that we are.  At the same time, “feeling” is not to be discounted. God desires to manifest His love to us in ways that we sense, or experience it. God created us with the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.  Through our senses we experience the world, and through our experiences we understand that what is, is. Likewise it is the senses of our heart (emotion being a key player) that help us verify the truth of our knowledge, that God is love. 

 

What is love?  I don’t have a pat answer, but I do have a great hope.  A hope that you find a hundred or more ways to describe it, recieve it, share it, and feel it today! 

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