Love Truth Blog

On Friday, June 26, 2015, a 5-4 SCOTUS struck down state bans on same-sex marriage nationwide. Millions voiced their approval of the verdict on social media using the hastag #lovewins. So, I ask myself, “What’s love got to do with it?” Love is a powerful word, but hardly something that is omnipotent, good, and pure. Simply because we love a person, place, or thing does not mean our affections are leading us in the right direction. Many Christians have been instructed: “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15, ESV). Solomon, the wisest Old Testament saint, loved many women, but they led him astray, leading him into detestable pagan practices, and leaving him with only a half-hearted devotion to the Lord (1 Kings 11:1-8). If #lovewins it is because God is love and God demonstrates to us the way to love. Something Christians can own up to is that on account of the fall, we are all sexually brok...

I don’t claim to be some kind of love doctor or anything like that, and honestly I probably don’t know much about love at all. But I came across something today in C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity that really hit the nail on the head! It goes like this: On the whole, God’s love for us s a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will. If we are trying to do His will we are obeying the commandment, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God.” He will give us feelings of love if He pleases. We cannot create them for ourselves, and we must not demand them as a right. But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of t...