Monday, December 23rd. The Fourth Week of Advent where we are celebrating LOVE.
LOVE IS A RELATIONSHIP
"If God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." 1 JOHN 4:11 RSV
The word love, as it is used in the biblical texts, has two obvious qualities. St. John, the master teacher on love . . ., taught that love has its own origins in God (“we love; because he first loved us”— 1 John 4:19) and that it is a relationship with persons (“if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another”—1 John 4:11). Love is not a word that describes my feelings. It is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs. It is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.
(Eugene H. Peterson, Traveling Light)
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