"What do any of us really know about love?" Mel said... later he says "Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.".... and to finish off my quotes, he said, "it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love."(he was relating to the story of the elders in the accident)
Is is not weird to anyone else that it takes getting drunk in this world for grown men to wrap their arms around their sons and daughters to tell them that they love them? Of course getting drunk has different effects on different people but here we see old Mel speaking like a theologian on the topic of LOVE. And though I don't think I could agree with his approach on love in the since of the way he lived it, his questions and statements are not far at all from what I would call the reality of love...
His question, what do any of us really know about love? is a question that will be answered differently through out our world of diversity, but in my opinion, what we know about God is really what we know about love. And that is absolutely nothing... you see because from a Christian point of view, if the Bible states that God is love(1 Jn 14.8,4.16), then how could anyone ever truly, possibly understand love. God gives us revelation in His Word about who He is and what Hes about so that we may understand Him, yet at times in our walk with Him we feel we understand nothing about this God of ours. What does man truly know about God? is the real question. Like Mel I ask, "Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it." As much as I love Gods word and digging deep into it, I would have to say with the most humble heart that I am far from truly knowing anything about God, therefore how can I understand love. God gives us enough revelation to understand what He is not, therefore we can know what love is not and Terri's first situation was certainly not love for "love does no harm to its neighbor."(Ro 13.1o)
Concerning Mel's last statement, we should be ashamed when we talk about love like we know what were talking about, not because of the story he tells, but because of the greatest story ever told... the story of Jesus. How many of us would do what God did for a race like us? and it was not just because God loved us, as if he fell in love with us that He did it, but that he chose to love us. I say that because God in His sovereignty does not have to love us, for he does not need us(Job22.2-3) which goes to show that love is not something you fall into but something you chose to jump into... overall Mel's questions and statements to me, though he was just a drunk talking, show a humbleness that I believe all Christians could use in their search for Gods love. Even this drunk knew what love was not...
"Two things we will never fully understand, God and Love, but ironically we KNOW that God loves us."
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I enjoyed the honesty in your post. We really don’t know anything about love. Our God is so big and there is so much to know about him we could never possibly know who he is entirely. But he has sent his Holy Spirit to live among us so that we may have a glimpse at what true love is. When Mel was talking about how we’re just beginners at love I think he was right about this. True love comes from the Father and we have experienced it as God has shown us so many acts of love but when it comes to us giving love it becomes flawed and distorted.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog. I love the last sentence too! There is a definate poetry to some of structure!
ReplyDeleteThis is really well done and beautifully articulated. A lot of us put this story up against Christ's love to show it doesn't hold water, but you put this together like a work of art.
ReplyDeleteThis feels very refreshing, and very honest.
That last quote was very inspiring. What we deserve is not perfect love, but it is that perfect love that we need in our lives. I really enjoyed reading this blog because it was beautiful.
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