On Love

You know those times when we will teach, or listen, or hear someone say, 'Love is not what people nowadays think it is'. And then you have to ask, 'Then what exactly is it?' And the good/sad thing is (depending on how you see it), the Christians will tell you that 'Love is a will to wish the best of the other person' (or something along this line).

Well, nice definition. But it is becoming like a cliche. I know what it means, and I agree with it, but that sentence is one of those things that are becoming meaningless. I don't mean to say that just by saying a true thing many times over it becomes false any more than repeating nonsense a thousand times make you look intelligent. Far from it. It is meaningless because the people saying it are not loving people. Am I saying only people who love can say it? Well, in a sense, yes. Yet at the same time it is a no, because there is no one who had truly loved completely apart from Him. And what mystery that He claims to be Love Himself! Thus in a way we are to say it and explain it, and in a peculiar other way, we cannot possibly explain it to the degree that love actually deserves. In short, whatever we try to explain of love, it is not perfect, even that sentence that Christians think what love really is. Who understands it perfectly? And more often than not, the person after hearing this, goes off no more the loving person than he is now, and understanding love not a degree better.

I do not mean stop preaching love. Preach it, but better than that, practise it! I used to have some criticisms of Pastor, as I believe do some in our midst. But I have found out one thing that makes me ashamed of myself: he can love better than I do.

And I believe I have much to learn from him, if only I humble myself, and I sure have much to learn from God, if only I humble myself. If not, Love, to me will always remain of mere meaningless words, and not of deeds.