THE TRUE MEANING OF LOVE

THE TRUE MEANING OF LOVE
Love is choosing to do kind, unselfish deed for others. Love is not just emotion, it is a decision. It is not just feelings, it’s an action, some people mistake feeling of lust for love. Love is giving and forgiving, helping and thanking. Love is not about being convenient but being committed and consistence to care, willingness to share and sacrifice, love must be honest and true and should be shown by deeds not by words of mouth only.
Love comes in different forms, it's a concept that has distinct types. There are three major types of love: Eros, Phileos and Agape Love:
Eros Love:
This is a romantic type of love and should only be practised by husband and wife. It is the type of love with passion and longing between an opposite sex to crave and desire each other.
It's the love that moves a man and a woman to become one entity.
Phileos Love:
This can be called brotherly love, it's the love between relatives and friends. It moves us to share what we have among one another.
Agape Love
This is a pure love of God - the love between God and human beings. This love is pure and magical, it moves beyond physical, emotional to spiritual.
Agape love & Philoes love can be practised by all Christians, but eros is meant for husband and wife. Unfortunately this is the kind of love many unmarried people mistake for love which in turn lead to fornication. The bible makes us to understand how terrible is the sin of sexual immorality. It's the sin that defies the body. 1 Cor. 6:18, I Theses 4:3-8, II Tim. 2:22. For us Christians the standard of God is to wait for marriage before sex (that is between husband and wife only), as this will help you build your marriage on trust. Then you will enjoy and respect each other.
By Angela Onwabhagbe Musa