Mkasika
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- Sep 11, 2010
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MwanajamiiOne, let me start by saying we need to eat and drink in order to stay alive. Without liquid to drink/food to eat we just come to an end. But in order to live in any real sense of the word, we also need love. Life without love is a subhuman kind of existence. There is a built-in need in us to receive love. We need the love of our parents. We need the love of family and friends. We need to be part of a loving community. But just as much as we need to receive love, we also need to give love. We are not truly human if we cannot love.
But let`s be clear; True love does not begin with us. The capacity for the love is created in us by our creator. God`s love always precedes our love. Whatever else we say about love, this point is crucial.....!!
True love is not an impulse, but a divine principle, a permanent power. The unconsecrated heart cannot originate or produce it. Only in the heart where Jesus reigns it is found.`we love Him, because He loved us first`(1John4:19).
The famous British author C.S.Lewis uses the term `Gift-love` and `Need-love` to differentiate between Gods love and human forms of love. While God wants our love more than anything else, He does not need our love in the same way in which we need love from Him and from fellow human beings.`We must begin at the real beginning with love as the Divine energy. This primal love is Gift-love. In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
Our human love needs to be transformed by divine love, so that-while we continue to yearn for love from others-we will be able to give love in a truly Christlike manner.
But let`s be clear; True love does not begin with us. The capacity for the love is created in us by our creator. God`s love always precedes our love. Whatever else we say about love, this point is crucial.....!!
True love is not an impulse, but a divine principle, a permanent power. The unconsecrated heart cannot originate or produce it. Only in the heart where Jesus reigns it is found.`we love Him, because He loved us first`(1John4:19).
The famous British author C.S.Lewis uses the term `Gift-love` and `Need-love` to differentiate between Gods love and human forms of love. While God wants our love more than anything else, He does not need our love in the same way in which we need love from Him and from fellow human beings.`We must begin at the real beginning with love as the Divine energy. This primal love is Gift-love. In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.
Our human love needs to be transformed by divine love, so that-while we continue to yearn for love from others-we will be able to give love in a truly Christlike manner.