#RealLove
How do you know it’s real love
How do you know when it’s real love? Is there such a thing as real love, or is that something people say when their crush is so strong they can’t stand to be away from the other person for more than an hour. How do know it’s real Love? I welcome my readers to share their experiences here. Feel free to comment below.
What Is Love?
According to my dictionary, love is defined as follows: (Noun.) and its synonyms:
- An intense feeling of deep affection: fondness, tenderness, warmth, intimacy
- A great interest or pleasure in something: Liking, weakness, partiality, leaning, inclination to
- A person or thing that one loves: Beloved, loved one, dear, dearest, dear one
Verb:
- Feel deep affection for: to be in love with
- Like or enjoy very much: delight in
How do these definitions explain what real love is?
I feel they are pretty vague, don’t you? After all, it appears as if there are many different types and degrees of love that could even be defined as liking something or someone very much. Are “like” and “love “the same thing then?
I suppose it would depend on varying factors on how we could define either. It could also depend on the environment we were raised in and our relationships growing up. For example, I was born into a dysfunctional family. Both of my parents were alcoholics and both died at young ages. Father molested me, as did several of his friends. He died at the age of 59.
Mother was physically disabled with Rheumatoid Arthritis and self-medicated with alcohol for many years until the disease ran its course and she was finally somewhat pain-free. She resented me and favored my only sibling. Mom passed away at the age of 72. Did I know what love was growing up? No. There were never any hugs or I love yous. In fact, to this day it is difficult to allow anyone to step into my private space to show affection. But I digress. Let’s get back to the subject of how we know when love is real.
Would they die for you?
Would your spouse die for you? Would you die for him/her? That’s a pretty tough question isn’t it and one that most people answer deceptively. It is pretty easy to say that you would die for someone but when it came right down to it the bets would be off and it’s time to run in the other direction.
A Love We Can Trust
Would you die for someone who doesn’t know you, someone who hates you? There is one person who has done that for each of us and for only one reason: LOVE. Yes, somebody gave His life for you. He died a most humiliating, degrading, and painful death for you. He did this in order to ensure your life with Him because He loves you.
The Perfect Gift
There are at least 109 verses in the Bible that speak of the love of God. Here are just a few:
1 John 4:16
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:19
We love him, because he first loved us.
John 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
1 John 4:
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Romans 8:38-3
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Galatians 5:22-2
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
1 John 4:
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
And the most famous verse of all that speaks of God’s love for us and His plan of salvation:
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
All through the whole Bible we can read about God’s love for us. From the very beginning He has loved all of His creations. When our first parents were deceived in the garden, what did God do? He killed one of His beautiful creatures in order to cover their naked bodies, in essence, He covered their sins by shedding the blood of an innocent creature.
The Plan Of Salvation
That very act pointed toward what would happen on the cross many years later. When God implemented the sacrificial laws demanding the shedding of blood and certain animals to be killed to attone for sin, He was showing HIs people the plan of salvation, showing them what was to come. When Jesus was crucified, the law of sacrifice was ended once and for all.
Do You Want Real Love?
God wants all to live forever with HIm, and that time is coming soon. All we have to do is accept His gift and follow HIm! Do you want to know how great it is to have that love in your life each and every day and know that it is absolutely real? Read why be a Christian and discover a life of love and never ending blessings. A life in Christ is worth every sacrifice we lay at HIs feet. I am talking about sin, not animals.
When I first came to know Jesus, my life was full of sin. He gave me victory over my sinful habits-smoking and drinking- and each day He continues to do that good work in me. I am living a new life and have never been happier! I really pray that each and every one of you reading this will get to know Jesus and feel that real love as I finally do.
