What is True Love ?

Joyce Pillai
Nov 7 · 2 min read

If you google the word “Love”, you will be surprised to learn that there are 22 billion results that get displayed. To put this into perspective, you have three pages on love for every single person living on this planet! Let that sink in for a minute. Love has become a very commonly used word in our everyday life, and yet, people are searching for the true meaning of love.

The greatest expression of God’s love is communicated in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

God’s greatest desire is that we join him in eternity. He has made the way possible by paying the price for our sins. He loves us because he to, as an act to His will. So, what does it mean that God is love? Love is an attribute of God. Love is a core aspect of God’s character, His person. The Bible however points us to Jesus who is called “Love”. 1 John 4:8 clearly declares God is Love.

If God is love, how can we possibly know and obtain this love from God? Blaise Pascal said, _“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.”_ God who loves us unconditionally that he was willing to die on the cross for us and fill us with the vacuum only God can fill.

In 1 John 4:10, the apostle John writes “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”

When we experience this Love of God , it is out of the overflow of his love that we can invite others to experience it too. The people in our world are searching for this true love that can fill the vacuum in their lives. Are we pointing them to the one true love ?

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