Love, the Lover and the Loved E-Book

Ayodele Ajileye

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• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

Let's Talk About Love

Everywhere I go, all the places that I've been

Every smile is a new horizon on a land

I've never seen

There are people around the world

Different faces, different names

But there's one true emotion that

Reminds me we're the same

Let's talk about love

From the laughter of a child

To the tears of a grown man

There's a thread that runs right through us

All and helps us understand

As subtle as a breeze, that fans a flicker

To a flame

From the very first sweet melody

To the very last refrain

Let's talk about love

Let's talk about us

Let's talk about life

Let's talk about trust

Let's talk about love

It's the king of all who live

And the queen of good hearts

It's the ace you may keep up your

Sleeve, till the name is all but lost

As deep as any sea, with the rage of

Any storm

But as gentle as a falling leaf on any

Autumn morn

(Song by Celine Dion)

Let's talk love, shan't we

Leseprobe

Ayodele Ajileye

Love, the Lover and the Loved

Exposition on 2 Corinthians 13:14

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Unless otherwise stated, all scriptural references are from the New Living Translation. The message translation is referred to as msg, Amplified Bible as AMP and King James Version as KJV.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to you the reader because you are a love being.

Let's Talk About Love

Everywhere I go, all the places that I've been

Every smile is a new horizon on a land

I've never seen

There are people around the world

Different faces, different names

But there's one true emotion that

Reminds me we're the same

Let's talk about love

From the laughter of a child

To the tears of a grown man

There's a thread that runs right through us

All and helps us understand

As subtle as a breeze, that fans a flicker

To a flame

From the very first sweet melody

To the very last refrain

Let's talk about love

Let's talk about us

Let's talk about life

Let's talk about trust

Let's talk about love

It's the king of all who live

And the queen of good hearts

It's the ace you may keep up your

Sleeve, till the name is all but lost

As deep as any sea, with the rage of

Any storm

But as gentle as a falling leaf on any

Autumn morn

(Song by Celine Dion)

Introduction

Let’s talk about love, shan’t we? Back in the day when Celine Dion sang the song titled Let’s talk about love people chanted, “Go Celine” but many did not give much thought to what she meant by the song. Perhaps, she was more driven to emotion by the depth than the rhythm. She was speaking my mind and the mind of everyone that could think deeper to reach for the message and not the noise. As she said, love is the true emotion that shows that we are the same. It is what connects us as human.

Love is what makes the world go round. It makes the heart stop or keep beating. It is what defines us as human. Love is all encompassing. Celine Dion saying that it is one true emotion shows that regardless of color, tongue and other differences, we are still the same.

Love. What a word? So vastly used, misinterpreted, defined and expressed. It is all that human exist for and it is all human exist in. It is what is claimed when rebuking someone, the same is claimed to mislead another. It is what we claim when pampering someone and the same is claimed for indulgence. Love is the cover people claim for doing it right as well as when things are done wrongly.

Love happens to all other good virtue; patience, joy and so on have to be in love. May be that is why Paul mentioned love as the first in the attributes of the fruit of the spirit. Jesus said all laws and prophets are summarized in the word love. Once love is appreciated, accepted, misinterpreted, wrongly defined, rejected, misused or abused, every other good virtue receives the same treatment.

I have seen different definition and expression of love which sent me straight to wanting to know the true definition and expression of love. Following the perversion in the present world, one may be confused at what love truly is. This book is written to show, at least, in part, the true nature of love.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (2 Corinthians 13:14)

I started an exposition on 2 Corinthians 13:14 and this is the second after Grace. Grace is the Lord Jesus Christ; He is grace personified. It is him (grace) that introduces human into the likeness of God. Now, love is of the Father and the Father is love. It is important to understand what this means in order to love in the right way.

This book presents the true nature of love and its true operation in our world. However, I would like you to keep a journal around while reading through this book so that you can map out what you are able to understand about every issue of love discussed so that you can know how to applied the exposition to your own love life.

Peace.

Love in Person

I wonder what people will not do in the name of love, don’t you? One kills another keeps alive, one hunts another shepherds, some grow it while some steal it, and some go for it while some wait for it. It is endless what people do for love. And indeed, love is in everyone. Though there is diversity in its expression but it all comes down to love. However, this wide mode of expression got me wondering what love really is.

Well, I don’t know about you, but I am willing to swallow my pride and go back to where it all started so as to see for myself the true meaning of love and its practice. I think that if the world has come this far in issues of love, then there is a beginning to love as there is for everything else. Love is the essence of life and so I think that the giver of life is also the source of its essence. Now, this is not a religious book but like any other good seeker of the truth, I have to go to the one that created it all and that is God. We can only trace love back to God because the creation shows who the creator is and the creator shows what the creation is.

Well, as far as I know and have come to believe, the Holy Bible is the book that vividly describes who God is because it is said to be inspired by His Spirit. (1 Timothy 3:16) So, let’s search for answers in the Bible.

Why would one kill, another preserves, and all still call it love. Really, what is this thing called love? Well, the bible says that God is love (1 John 4:8), I believe it. But love seems scary in this present world yet the Bible never paints God as scary. So, I think that for us to know what love is we need to know who God is since Love starts and ends with God (Jeremiah 31:3)