What is love?

In doing research for this article I looked up the word LOVE in 2 trusted books. The first one being a dictionary. The other source I consulted was the Holy Bible.

From Merriam-Webster I discovered many different routes for love. My paraphrased definition of love is what follows. Love can be, a strong affection for another human and tenderness felt for a lover. I can admire you as my teacher, scout master or Sunday-School teacher. Being enthusiastic for sports can be called love. Having a concern for human kind is love. There is love for a friend, love for your children, you can love ice cream, puppies or the sea. A person can love with devotion and utmost attention, you can be attached to, devoted to, enthusiastic for a vast array of things, people and places. Perhaps this definition must concentrate on the human kind of love, which drags us along sometimes unwillingly. That kind of love that can be overwhelming and never understood

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This dictionary's definition of love can fit many situations. But this is love? I need more!

The Holy Bible, the most trusted and most often read book ever written. It holds absolute truth and wisdom sent to us from a loving Heavenly Father, this book is the definition of love. From its renowned passages I gleaned many things about love.

All through the ages the Bible has taught men and women to love. The depth and volume we are to love is diverse and complex. Biblical love is to minister to the needs of others, to love one another, to love clothing the naked, visiting the sick, sympathizing with the sorrowful, supporting the weak. The Bible teaches that love covers mountains and mountains of the faults and failures of others.

I show true beautiful love by forgiving others when they have hurt me or injured me in some way. I am to love by forbearing with others, does that mean putting up with their strange ways, allowing them to be whom or what they are? I show Biblical love by, remarkably, rebuking. I have to stop and examine this one, because I don't know if I want to do this. It appears that if a fellow has done something to offend you, you must, in love, go to that person and tell them about it, and give them a chance to make it right. Well I can do that, but it will come only from love, love for myself and love for the offender.

Who am I to love? The Holy Scriptures state that I am to love the saints, ministers, my family, and my fellow country men. It instructs to love

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