True Love
Posted on February 19, 2012 by Willie LaBonne, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
What do we mean when we say "I love You"? Read this article and see if what you are feeling is "true love."
We say the word “Love” so much in our language today. “I love this- I love that..” I love him;" “I love her.” Like other words used in our daily lives, sometimes we don’t really think before we speak. We love many things and love many people, but I just want you to think, is this love conditional? “I love you if you ….” Or better yet, “If you love me, you would…”
I just want to share one of my favorite Bible verses with you- don’t worry- I won’t preach… This is from the 1st Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 13-
“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Love doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
Love doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love."
At least for today, let’s try to truly love more. Let’s love unconditionally. Just because… We don’t need a reason… Let’s give love, show love, and really mean it when we say “I love you.” After all, Love is the greatest emotion and the greatest power in this World; let’s use it to change our lives
