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TRUE LOVE

 


God is love. He first loved mankind, and desires mankind to love Him in return.  However, for true love to exist, both parties must be given the opportunity to say, ‘No.’  God has given His intelligent creation this opportunity.

The chief cause of problems and distresses in our world is, the poor choice made when it comes to this quality called love.  The quality from which all that is good is derived. 

In reality, most people do not make love their choice. Instead, they choose lust, control, passion, money, infatuation, status, pity, convenience, even idolatry, and these are mistaken for love, and are termed, love. However, selfishness is at the root of all these that pose as love.

Rightly defined, love is godly principle that is interwoven with threads of fond feeling, and is activated solely by freedom of choice.  A choice that develops into relationships that are affectionately principled.  This is true love – the love that never fails.

This is the love that God desires to exist between God and man, and man and man.

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