Where is it? What is it?

Where is it?  What Is it?

Love!  But, how do we compare the love of God which is God to the human understanding of just what our love means?  Of course there are volumes of literature explaining the errotic type of love that an uneducated mind can only understand.  Then, the words of the prophets attempting to teach man that God’s idea of love somehow grows through suffering.  

Two persons, a man and a woman, find each other through the simple term of completion through human giving and acceptance of becoming one.  This is the premise of marriage before God and the community.  Becoming witnesses to a promise given to each other is the closest adherence of an insoluble covenant that parallels God and mankind.  

When God created humanity there was a heaven-felt desire that a marriage would be the very manner of sharing this entity called love and would never wane in its promise given between the two.  

The first question of “ where is it” cannot be found in an empty container filled with greed and selfishness.  These are two of the many attributes that disguise the essence of love and become hedonistic in its nature.

“What is it” will always be hidden from the eye of man when the deadliest attribute of pride takes first place in the quest of our seeking love without the reality of God’s true love becoming ours forever.  

From John’s Gospel and his 1st letter we discovered just what and where this love is and can be found.  “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but have eternal life.” ”For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.”  (Jn 3: 16 - 17).  “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God, for God is love.” “ God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.”  (1 Jn 4: 7 - 8, 16b).

Agape love is the definition of true love and can only be found in God.  It is so profound and a complete adherence to who God is, there is no human way to describe it.  It becomes one of the many mysteries from God that we must accept without question.  We may never find the beauty and everlasting aroma of God until we are face to face with God who is love.  

If there is a question to all of this love from God we must look inside our own humanness and try to emulate even a miniscule type of the term Agape and wrap our intellect around this God who cannot be equaled or understood.  Our salvation is Agape in essence.  

Ralph B. Hathaway