Tomorrow is Valentine's day and the feast of the hearts. The celebration will call us to, once and for all, recall that the Lord has His statement: "Love one another."
I have three things to propose for your reflection now.
First: this statement is a command. It is not an invitation, a request or an option but a command. Being a command, it calls for total obedience. we are not left with any choice except to follow His command to love one another. A Christian who says, "I cannot love the other. I will just love another one," is contradicting himself. Jesus statement is a command. It is not an option, a request or an ivitation. It is an obligation.
Second, the Lord says to us, "Love one another." He did not say, "Love one another when you are both young or when you are both healthy." He did not say, "Love one another when you are not angry anymore." Or, "Love one another when the other one has stopped offending you." The Lord only said, "Love one another" without any conditions or limitations.
The truth is, my dear friends, brothers and sisters in the Lord, we are persons who love to procrastinate (postpone or delay needlessly). We would rather show our love to one another next week or next year or on Valentine's day. Yet the Lord tells us the best time to love is not yesterday, not tomorrow, not next week, not on Valentine's day. The best time to love and the best way to love by God's command, "Love one another" is to love now. If we fail to love one another now, there is great possibility we will fail to love one another tomorrow or the next moment.
Third, the Lord says, "Love one another as I have loved you." The Lord did not say, "Love one another as they have loved you." Our standard for loving is not the love we see in ohers. But our standard for loving is the love we experience from the Lord Himself.
If our standard of loving is the love we receive from other people, very surely, our love will ceratinly be imperfect and impure. Our love's standard should be that of the Lord's.
Tomorrow, as we celebrate Valentine's day, let us keep these three thoughts in mind. It is obligatory to love one another. Loving one another has no conditions. Let us remind ourselves that our model for loving one another is not the love we see in others, but the love GOD has blessed us with.
Happy Valentine to us all!...
7 comments:
HAPPY VALENTINES KUYADOM!
"love one another" i think all people do that, un nga lng taung mga tao nilalagay ntn sa ibat ibang aspeto ang pagmamahal...thats why the LOVE we make to one another is not like GOD's LOVE (unconditionally).
gud afternoon!
@vera
Tumpakkkkk!... katulad nyang si Gbex na twin bro ko- aba mantakin mong naihi ako sa kakatawa sa mga pinagsasasagot nya doon sa tag mo! at siya pala ay isang asucareru de fafah ng gurl nya dati nyahahahahah--- at naubos milyunes nya dahil lang doon hehehehe--poor Gbex hahahahah!....
hahaha... lam mo saludo ako jan sa twinBRO mo...-- i know mahirap gawin ung tag na un bcoz of his mysterious identity sa lahat ng blogmates nya..including skn. nagpakatotoo lng ang bespren ko..kaya nga labs ko un e...tulad ng labs ko sau kuyaDom...parang kapatid ko na un c gbex! kolokoy kc! hihihi
happy balentyms bukas! at ang doktor mo pla ang iyong kdate bukas, i saw ur comment kay ateganda!
ingats!
Thanks for the reminder.
I really appreciate it.
"Loving one another has no condition."
Thanks for the very beautiful post Kuya... so nice!
Happy Heart's Day!
very true. if only we will love one another... there would be no BURAOT like me.
if we could channel our love for our special someone to every men, wala na sanang sufferings.
besides, di ba masarap ang feeling ng nagmamahal? bakit kaya di natin magawa yun sa lahat no?
masyado tayong concerned sa mga temporary joys na sa totoo lang naman eh.. superficial.
ala ey yun laang naman po. babatiin lang naman kita ng hapi valentyms kahit na dapat eh buong taon dapat i celebrate ito.
hehehe.
luv (charity) until it hurts...st.theresa of calcuta
I'm still em a newbee in d combined world of Gbex, VERA & Dom, osb.
But thru ur comments and posts, i'm beginning to understand and enjoy, little by little the unity in ur trinitarian blogs... :)
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