What is Love?

Defining 'love' can be difficult. Love is perhaps one of the most misused words in our vocabulary. We use the word love to describe things like foods, movies, music, pets as well as people we care about. The dictionary defines love as: 1) A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities. 2) A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance. 3) Sexual passion or intercourse. As you can see, it really depends on how or in what context it (the word love) is used. The original Greek word used for love in 1 Corinthians 13 (The Love Chapter) is agape. This word means dear affection or in other word selfless, unconditional, sacrificial, divine love. We can only really begin to understand what love is by the way it is shown in the following verses which we will be looking at in the few days. Love is action, defined by what it does, (and sometimes by what it does not), by how it is expressed or shown. God is Love and His Love has been poured into our hearts as His Children and we are to learn it's full dimensions and grow into a full demonstration of that dear love. Keep your heart open as we discover much more about true love.