el. oh. vee. eii.

What do we love and why do we love it?

We know we are sinful by nature. We are selfish. We also have the ability to love, and be loved. Are we taking or giving, using or being used, or is there a happy medium I am missing?

I love my friends because they make me happy, they chase away loneliness, and they add ‘spice’ to my life.

Would I love them if they didn’t make me happy, did nothing to prevent loneliness, and did nothing I found particularly interesting or amusing?

Taking this to the extreme, the answer is no. I would see them as people, and therefore would still value their life, by my personal connection and loyalty towards them would be drastically different.

I’m finding all forms of human love are selfish. I either love you because I in return benefit, or because I feel I ought to, where I also benefit from the satisfaction of doing the ‘right’thing by loving you.

The end*…

*the end of my blog (and honestly any real hope in life) if Jesus is not real.

But He is real. His love is radically different. In life, being consumed in the ‘love’ previously described, always being faced with the subconscious decision of what to love for what is to be gained, being loved by others who are also under this same distorted process; it is behind this gaze I look upon the love of Jesus, and therefore do not grasp it.

I am so unworthy, yet He loves me. What does Jesus gain from my love? If I can answer this, than I can better recognize that He does truly love me, right? WRONG. The question is not to be answered for that purpose. He does not bargain, the pro’s do not have to outweigh the con’s. He loves me. END of story (and blog, for reals)... except for the verse :)



4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres” 1 Corinthians 13:4-7