Thoughts to think about

John Lennon, in January 1970, released a song titled “Love.” His lyrics were:

“Love is real, Real is love. Love is feeling,
Feeling love. Love is wanting, To be loved.
Love is touch, Touch is love. Love is reaching, Reaching love. Love is asking
To be loved. Love is you, You and me. Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, Free is love. Love is living, Living love. “Love is needing. To be loved”

At that time, it seemed that everywhere we went, every show we watched and every song released as is often the case, mostly focused on young love—the excitement of falling in love, the pain, and the heartbreak of losing love.

However, they seldom addressed what real love truly is. The question “Love is…”
Was used in numerous attempts at defining love with no success for a universal answer.

However, Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians what real love is. In 1st Corinthians 13, he wrote , “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not Charity. I have become a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not Charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not Charity, it profits me nothing.”

Charity suffers long and is kind; Charity does not envy; Charity does not parade itself, is not puffed up; Charity does not behave rudely, Charity does not seek its own, Charity is not provoked, thinks no evil; Charity does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth; Charity bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Charity never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will fail; where there are tongues, they will cease; where there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

The love we should seek is the love of Christ, which is charity and endures forever. Whosoever possesses charity at the last day, it shall be well with them. As we love God with all our minds, might, and strength, and love our neighbors as ourselves, we will have the love of Christ in our lives.

D. Charles Wilson 01-12-25