Love Correctly Directed
God is love is foundational Christian belief. Christians see this love as a Person (the Christ), from which this Person uses Himself as the language to His creation. What better language could God use than Christ to us as material beings? It is our life-long mission to take love as it is divinely given from Christ; listening to God maintaining a conversation to us and others through Himself. It is the lack of comprehension and use of divine love correctly demonstrated between the Trinity that at the same degree we loose our human characteristics to love as His children. When a love is correctly directed its’ fruit is sweat and all relationship with it at ease.
C.S. Lewis believes there are four categories of this love: Storge (Affection), Philia (Friendship), Eros (Sexual) and Agape (Charity). One has to step into these worlds of love carefully, not because they are wrong but just the opposite; they are so divinely right. One loves a dog (affection), one loves a friend (friendship), one loves a wife or husband (sexual) and one is loved by God unselfishly and we learning to love back unselfishly (charity). These are our love worlds of great adventure to where God reveals Himself. Jesus said “I come to bring you life.” We can not expect this life without embracing fully the I, the Person of Love. More we settle for love and life lite results more into the death of love in our lives.
John Paul II called our Western culture “the culture of death.” This statement, in part, reflects rejection of divine love and/or a refusal of considering it. The modern and progressive view of love can be found in the fruit of its’ mortal users, wishing to change it to image oneself, making oneself god and goal. If the loves are warped in our culture it is not that God that is love has changed, but mortal users with greater regularity changing relationship with God wishing to now mirror themselves. Who God is in ones life is the foundation from which all the love longed for is ultimately fruitful or dies on the vine.
The Christian perspective of love provides another alternative; love is not to image its’ moral user, but its’ divine Giver. It is a divine language that is designed to communicate what God is and who we are within Him. We can only love correctly when we have been correctly loved. We can only be love to others when we are not the point: pointing to its’ Source.
God is love is foundational Christian belief. Christians see this love as a Person (the Christ), from which this Person uses Himself as the language to His creation. What better language could God use than Christ to us as material beings? It is our life-long mission to take love as it is divinely given from Christ; listening to God maintaining a conversation to us and others through Himself. It is the lack of comprehension and use of divine love correctly demonstrated between the Trinity that at the same degree we loose our human characteristics to love as His children. When a love is correctly directed its’ fruit is sweat and all relationship with it at ease.
C.S. Lewis believes there are four categories of this love: Storge (Affection), Philia (Friendship), Eros (Sexual) and Agape (Charity). One has to step into these worlds of love carefully, not because they are wrong but just the opposite; they are so divinely right. One loves a dog (affection), one loves a friend (friendship), one loves a wife or husband (sexual) and one is loved by God unselfishly and we learning to love back unselfishly (charity). These are our love worlds of great adventure to where God reveals Himself. Jesus said “I come to bring you life.” We can not expect this life without embracing fully the I, the Person of Love. More we settle for love and life lite results more into the death of love in our lives.
John Paul II called our Western culture “the culture of death.” This statement, in part, reflects rejection of divine love and/or a refusal of considering it. The modern and progressive view of love can be found in the fruit of its’ mortal users, wishing to change it to image oneself, making oneself god and goal. If the loves are warped in our culture it is not that God that is love has changed, but mortal users with greater regularity changing relationship with God wishing to now mirror themselves. Who God is in ones life is the foundation from which all the love longed for is ultimately fruitful or dies on the vine.
The Christian perspective of love provides another alternative; love is not to image its’ moral user, but its’ divine Giver. It is a divine language that is designed to communicate what God is and who we are within Him. We can only love correctly when we have been correctly loved. We can only be love to others when we are not the point: pointing to its’ Source.
posted by Kenneth W. Michael | 10:32 AM
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