Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personalattachment.[1] It can also be a virtuerepresenting human kindness,compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".[2] It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals.[3]
Ancient Greeks identified four forms of love: kinship or familiarity (in Greek,storge), friendship (philia), sexual and/orromantic desire (eros), and self-emptying or divine love (agape).[4][5]Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of romantic love.[6] Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states.[7] This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.
Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationshipsand, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.[8]
Love may be understood as a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.[9]
While by definition love could be portrayed several ways god displayed his love for us as follows:
In Christian theology, kenosis (from the Greek word for emptinessκένωσις, kénōsis) is the 'self-emptying' of one's own will and becoming entirely receptive to God's divine will.
The word ἐκένωσεν (ekénōsen) is used in Philippians 2:7, "[Jesus] made himself nothing ..."[Phil. 2:7] (NIV) or "...[he] emptied himself..."[Phil. 2:7](NRSV), using the verb form κενόω (kenóō) "to empty". See also Strong's G2758.
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! (Philippians 2:5-8 NIV)
How often do we live "self emptying". Are we picking up our cross daily emptying ourselves of our desires for his? I am in debt to Christ for bleeding the ground red on cavalry while I wasn't worthy of it. I am in debt. His love is more vast and overwhelming than I have words to describe it. I am in debt, forever may I pickup my cross and follow him. As my brother in Christ Kerry says...deo volente
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