"Love vaunteth not itself" I Cor. 13:4
Our writer continues his very careful parsing of the characteristics of love by elevating a negation regarding what love is not. He elevates to expose a terrible negative to the full view of light. There is no darkness in real love (agape - self, sacrificial love). Real love is an elemental power and therefore nurtures the heart.
Real love does not seek to brag about what one possesses. Love does not brag. It does not act in inappropriate ways thinking to bring attention to itself. Love is enough for itself. There is satisfaction in resting within genuine love.
Counterfeit love or illegitimate love is insatiable because it knows that it is mere selfish fiction and therefore must frantically seek to feed its desire. This love, love as convenient fiction harms the self and others. It is driven by consuming desire that can never be fulfilled because the heart does not know love - genuine love.
In the Gospel documents there is a story of a woman who stood behind the Iesous and wept audibly before all in the room where he was. She knew the presence of love (agape) in the person of the Iesous. She knew that he was the Theanthropos, the God-man who liberates from the fiction of love and brings genuine love.
Her tears were formidable testimony of Grace. He really is who the biblical documents present him to be. God is love and the Iesous is proof of his love.
Have your been wounded by love as deception fiction? Has the experience made you bitter? You need to call upon the Iesous and let him lead you into the real love (self, sacrificing love) the he alone offers.
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