Despite our incredible achievements in science and technology, our society has done much to pervert the meaning of love. So much so that many are asking, "What does it mean to truly love some one or be loved by anyone?
Our culture condones the use of love as a weapon or a bargaining chip if it helps to elevate one's status or advance one's cause. For me, it is in 1Jn 3:16-18 that I find the proper meaning of love...Sacrifice.
Christ showed the depth of his love for us in the robustness of his sacrifice. Not only giving up his place in heaven, but giving his own life that we might live. The enduring truth is that the measure of sacrifice in our lives indicates the amount of love in our hearts.
For Christ did not stop with sweet words of compassion and assurance, but went the distance with powerful acts of sacrifice. May all of us seek to increase the measure of our sacrifice so that we make more room in our hearts for love.