Comments on: What is true love?

By: prince

prince — Tue, 29 May 2012 08:55:08 +0000

one point that I strongly agree with you is the point you made about the two couples having similar goals. my dear, this is the biggest problem we have in the modern style of relationhsip and it is has destroyed many relationships and have rendered lots of marriages unhappy. you see, one can not hope to get a very sweet marriage when the two parties are having different plans and goals. my advice in this case is that the two parties can compromise on the said goals and try to work as one. the bible told us that the two shall become one and not the two shall become two. some men will want to marry a woman who will be a house wife but are in a relationship with a woman who can never give up all her academics success. this is almost happening in most of the relationships in the world. I think, that point you made is the main point to consider in relationship. another point is the issue of the same ideology. if the partners don’t have the same or similar ideology, it becomes a very big time problem. this is why it is said that birds of the same feathers flock together. if one loves talking and chating with lots of people and including the opposite sex, while the other is not that kind of person, it becomes a problem because one will always complain. I think, these links will help our readers to also understand how to find true love http://www.trueloverelationship-advice.com/2012/03/how-to-find-true-love.html and some of the qualities of true love http://www.trueloverelationship-advice.com/2012/01/what-are-qualities-of-true-love.html

By: Zoltansky

Zoltansky — Tue, 29 May 2012 05:20:02 +0000

Dear Lady23, I understand your logical conclusions. In your conclusions, you perfectly describe what God actually is. God is exactly everything that is and was before time itself. People that don’t believe in God do so because they haven’t yet come to understand God. I came to believe entirely in God and Jesus and the Bible after hearing logical thinkers explain their rationale for it, so I came to my complete faith through a thorough logical endeavor. In order for my faith to be real, I had to be entirely convinced.

Here is the kicker: Most people will agree that whether they believe Jesus was God or not, they believe that Jesus was a good man. That he was inherently doing good on this earth. Yet look at his statements: “I am God. Before time itself, I existed, and after the passage of all time, I will still exist.” Now, if he really wasn’t God, if he was just a man or a prophet, then to make such bold and outrageous claims is downright evil and sinister! So if we are to conclude that Jesus brought a great power of goodness, then we must believe his words entirely, or else he is just a pathological egomaniac and liar. And very few people would accept this statement. To me, this is a very strong argument to believe Jesus entirely when he says that he is God that came to walk on this earth as a man among us.

If we believe Jesus is God, then we have so much guidance handed down to us that we can follow. Jesus had very specific things to say about love and marriage. In my experience, couples that are committed to their covenant to each other as a joint covenant under the Will of God, they find a way to work it out and learn what they must to do to treat each other with the love and respect required.

As Jamie has alluded to in previous posts, we are not capable of acting selflessly and perfectly as we need to in order to treat our mate right! We need the guidance of God, and the Will of God to supersede the individual desires/wants of either partner. If either partner does not take care that the Will of God come first and foremost, then there will be problems and troubles that get worse instead of getting better. If both people in the marriage are committed to putting the Will of God first, then although they will still have problems to work through, they will become better and better at working through each problem with less stress and struggle.

So in conclusion, I believe God has everything to do with Love, because without God, we cannot truly love, for we are selfish and bad at being loving if we follow our own plans, wills and desires.

By: Jamie

Mon, 14 May 2012 18:37:12 +0000

Truelovesstudent, I am not sure I understand what you are saying. You link true love to consciousness. Can you explain that a little more? Thanks

By: truelovesstudent

truelovesstudent — Sun, 06 May 2012 23:37:29 +0000

I agree that true love (consciousness) came first. All form, including rocks, manifested from infinite love. God IS Love.

By: Claire Colvin

Wed, 02 May 2012 20:48:39 +0000

Lady23, I am genuinely curious, if love existed before time, who was the object of that love? You said that love is a special bond which I totally agree with, but that bond has to exist between two things/people/creatures/etc. Love needs an initiating source. You said that everything has love but I don’t agree with that. A cat can love but a rock cannot. Love is a choice and an action which requires consciousness. Who loved first?

By: Lady23

Lady23 — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:47:53 +0000

Love has nothing to do with god.. If you do not believe in god then where does that lead? Love is something everyone has its indescribable and remarkable it may not be all fun and kisses but it’s work and it’s just love, nothing to do with god. In any case, love was before this so called god. It was before marriage it was before time itself. It’s a special bond that is hard to break. Anyone and everything has love.

By: jing

jing — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 08:25:13 +0000

Thanks for the wonderful story about Tania.

By: Jamie

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:40:56 +0000

Hi Ronald, there are a number of sites that we have that offer regular devotionals. One you might enjoy is http://powertochange.com/blogposts/2012/04/20/the-wellspring-of-peace. This is today’s devotional for men and you can receive emails daily with links to each new devotional by clicking on “Subscribe by email” at the top of the article.

God bless you as you intentionally focus your attention on Him.

By: ronald lugoloobi

ronald lugoloobi — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:21:54 +0000

can i have a bible study with you and also we pray together.in the name of god i would like to take this opportunity to thank you for serving and spreading the gosple.

By: Jamie

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:30:27 +0000

Thanks for being so open with your story Mark. I think it is so cool the way that you connect love with God. He is the standard of what love is. Love is His personality and when we love it is a sign that we have been touched by Him. One of Jesus followers wrote “We love because He first loved us.” (1John 4:19) Just as you describe, God’s love is a selfless love; His is a self-sacrificing love. Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13) And that is exactly what Jesus did–in fact He went one step further because He gave up His life for people who hated Him. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8) So while we–humanity–were still actively rebelling against God and His purposes for us, Jesus died for us. In His death, He took on Himself all of the punishment for our rebellious sin. In exchange, humanity was given the opportunity to receive the perfection of Jesus for ourselves. “God made Him [Jesus] who knew no sin, to become sin for us so that we might become the righteousness [perfection] of God.” (2Corinthians 5:21) That is selfless love, don’t you think?!

That is why the way of Jesus Christ is so different from every other religion: all other religions call humans to follow a path of cleaning themselves up in order to be acceptable to God. Jesus calls us to trust in His sacrifice alone as the means of being cleansed from our rebellion against God. It means giving up our own efforts of trying to live right, or appease God or to love well and accept His perfection to be the source of love and living well. His promise is not only that He has taken our punishment on Himself but that He will now live in us and guide everything we do. We don’t have it in ourselves to love perfectly but when He comes to live in us His perfect selfless love becomes the source for our love towards others and towards God.

And I guess that is where I disagree with you Mark: you ask people to stop being selfish, reject hate and embrace love, but they (and you) don’t have what it takes to pull that off. You will be able to do it imperfectly. The only way to really live out those excellent ideals is by allowing Jesus Christ to do it through you. I know that is not a nice thing to realize but it is true. You are incapable of the idealized love you so eloquently write about. So many people have agreed with you about love but no one has been able to live it out perfectly except Jesus. The only reason He was able to achieve that impossible ideal is because He is the Son of God sent to Earth for the express purpose of showing the love of God and saving us. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it.” (John 3:16-17) If you truly want to love selflessly than look to Jesus and accept the free gift of forgiveness and love that He offers. “Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God–children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” (John 1:12-13)

Does that make sense Mark?