In the movie the husband just doesn't get what love is. His focus is himself. The more I thought about it, most of us don't. So what is true love? If you watch TV and movies, listen to music, etc you would think it was about power, revenge, sex, everyway but the right way.
God gives us a pretty clear picture of love.
- Matthew 22:36-38 (NIV)
36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'[a] 38This is the first and greatest commandment.
If we would follow this one command, the world would be a much better place. Think about it? It's against our worldly nature because most of us are self-centered.
- John 15:12-13 (NIV)
12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
Do you care enough for someone enough to die for them? God did. He cared so much for us that He sent His son Jesus to do just that, even for those who hated Him. Maybe you would die for someone you really cared for, but what about someone who has hates you or you hate them?
- 1 Corinthians 13 (NIV)
Love 1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
When you think about the person whom you love can you match the way you feel to these verses? When God led me to the person I was to marry, I based our relationship on these principles to make sure it was right. Before that, I could not say that I did. It's hard not to trust someone when you have been hurt or even abused. It's also hard not to be jealous of someone flirting with your boy/girlfriend or spouse.
Take some time to go through these verses and see if this is how you feel about others.
In His Service,
Stephen Linhart
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