What's love got to do with it?

So what's love got to do with the meaning of life?

Question: What is the most important thing in life?

Love!

What causes a man to lose his sanity and give up his credit card? Love!

What causes a woman to put up with a crabby man that everyone says what did she see in him? Love!

What makes you know that it is a bad idea to mess with a mother's kids. Love! A mother's love for her child.

So almost as complex as the question - what is the meaning of life - is the question what is love?

Ok everyone knows you have different kinds of love and men see things very different from women.

What do blokes know about love anyway?

The Greeks those master philosphers and thinkers on love broke it down with different words for love - which kinda helps as blokes tend to confuse things in English when they say I love my food- I love my car, I love football and I love my wife.

(Perhaps in that order too! )

Pehaps the Greeks can throw some light on this;

A Greek guide to love

• Eros from which we get erotica - self explanatory.
• Philia - the love for a friend - brotherly love
• Storge - needy love - child to parent love
• Agape -love without conditions - God's personal love for me and you.
  

Agape -

• God's love -
• I love you the way you are.
• You don't need to change for me to love you anymore.
• I cherish you.
• You matter to me.
• You matter so much too me that I would give my life for you.
• In fact I already have.

So what has this got to do with the price of fish in the 21st century?

Everything! We were created to love God and to love people.

The meaning of life comes from discovering God's real and practical love for me and in turn discovering his love for other people and my part in sharing his love.

• I was created to love God
• I was created to love people

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