TipsTheLess: What is Love?

Most teenage girls and boys and mostly all the people in this present age define love as a feeling of attraction or care to opposite sex. Let's face it. Love today has been given a bad name.

How many times have you said I love you to someone? It's like sugar in our ears whenever our crush tells us those three words. It sends a feeling of euphoria and chills to our spine. It's the feeling of being in love.

Love. You hear it in movies. After being said, then off to bed they go and make love with no care to the world.

Love. Teenagers this day express it with holding hands in public, kissing, and caressing with sweet moments of being alone. Eventually, it will lead to unwanted things.

Paul in his letter to the Corinthians defined love as patient and kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

When you define love as a noun, it's not love at all. Love is not a feeling of attraction. The world defined it the wrong way and confused it with something else. Lust is often disguised as love.

Love is a verb. It is doing. You can't love with feelings. How can you love if you don't feel like doing it?

Some say if you love a person, you should fight for him or her. Well, not all the time. Love is not self-seeking. Love is putting others first. It is letting go of the things you wanted most for the sake of love. When you love, you don't put your desires first. Even though it hurts to let go of the one you love for the best, it only means that your love is true. If you love someone, you should go for what is best for the one you love.

Love is patient. It waits for the best to come. When we love someone, we wait patiently for it to come. We don't search love. Love finds us.

Love does not envy. If we are not contented with what we have, we envy. Don't feel sorry if the one you love loves someone other than you. Rather, be thankful that you know what love really is.

Love is not easily angered. It doesn't keep a record of wrongs. If we love someone, it is easy for us to forgive and be merciful. No matter how many times we are wronged, love always is stronger to forgive.

There are still many definitions of the enigmatic word called love. The truth is that the greatest love that any one could ever know, is the love that overcame death for the one who is not even worth dying for.

Jesus Christ said that there is no greater love than for a man to lay down his life for his friends. It is not easy to die for a righteous person. Let's face it, it's not even easy to die for the apple of our eyes. How much harder it is to die for someone who has wronged you several times just to save his life?

Jesus Christ IS the best definition and the best expression of true love. He left his glorious throne in heaven to live like dirty humans as a subject. He took the punishment that was supposed to be ours. He laid down his life for us who are worthy of hell so that we may have life in him.

Before it stayed in our deceitful hearts, love was nailed to a humbled cross.

Love is eternal.