What does love really mean?
We throw the word love around fairly easily and we use it a lot more than we probably should. We love wives or girlfriends. We love our Church, school, or job. We love pizza and porterhouse. What don't we love? It seems like we say that we love everything that causes us to have any positive emotion or favorable opinion. We have watered the word down so much that we use it for anything that we remotely like. Unfortunately, when we use it so much that it becomes commonplace, it loses its force. Many people today could not even give you a real definition of love when asked. I know because I have asked lots of people that question. Let's look at what love really means. Webster starts by calling love a strong affection or a warm attachment and to some degree this is true but it is way short of the Biblical understanding of love, the one that I hope to use whenever I write the word. There are a couple passages in Scripture that give us a good look at what love is from God's p...