Walking into Love.

Defining Love?

I would like to start out by saying this, because there are so many facets of 'love', I find it very challenging to give a "definition" of love.  Obviously love is a very abstract thought as well as something that people say is very tangible.  Basically I am saying that this is NOT THE definition of love, but it is rather a very surface level understanding of it from my eyes, heart and mind. There will be more "definitions" given, but this is my first attempt at defining this thing called Love, so here it is. 

Love. |ləv|

God is love. This might be a very vague concept or idea to you, but you're not alone. If we simply look at the statement, "God is Love", then we restrictively understand *three things about it. Firstly, trying to define God is seemingly impossible because of the unfathomable amount of characteristics he has. Secondly, we begin to understand that God, did/has/and will, acts. Thirdly, love is from God. Love can be defined as God. 

Now this definition might not be very satisfying for you, but let me walk a little further with you. For Christians, they believe that Love is from God. They believe that the greatest act of love is described as when Jesus Christ (the Son of God) came down to earth. Humbled Himself and put on humanly flesh. Lived a perfect life, living a life without committing sin, and "after doing nothing wrong, took the bullet for his bride" (He was crucified taking on the world's sin, for the forgiveness of sins so that we could enjoy everlasting life with the Father). "Some people call it a love story". You still might be saying to yourself, "that doesn't really define love, but rather just gives an account of Jesus and what he did". True, it does give an account of what Jesus did, but Christians base their whole understanding and definition of what love is from what Jesus did (God is Love).   

There it is. My first attempt of many...

*That is not to say, that you can only walk away with three things about that statement. But rather our understanding of it, is restrictive.