Pure Love

Have you ever experienced pure love? If you haven’t, this is your opportunity. The path to pure love may surprise you.

A young couple fall in love and can’t live without each other? It sounds good and it is good, but is it pure? No, it has some impurities: such as infatuation, sexual desires, physical appearances, and status. It is quite easy to prove this isn’t pure love in light of the 50% divorce rate in the United States.

How about love for God? This one actually has some really big impurities such as: the hope of eternal life in paradise; receiving divine providence; and, the fact that we can’t see Him.

If you continue this logical path, you will see that it is very difficult to achieve pure love, until you consider the words of Jesus during the Sermon on the Mount. He said that we must love our enemies. This may seem a bit crazy, but the love you have for your enemy is pure, no encumbrances. If you love your enemy, you receive no perks. You do it only because it is the right thing to do.

Consider the young couple mentioned above, even if they do get divorced and become enemies, they can still have pure love for each other and fulfill their wedding vows.

So, this is your chance to experience pure love. Take your worst enemy and love him/her. You don’t have to talk to them or have a relationship with them, but they will give you the opportunity of experiencing pure love.

If you don’t know what God’s definition of love is, read I Corinthians 13.

James

1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 13:5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 13:6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

1 Corinthians 13:7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

1 Corinthians 13:10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 13:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.