A Monologue on καρδια
October 2, 2006It’s incredible to see what love actually is.
I mean, the pain, the agony, the longing…
It’s a real hell on earth.
Our hearts are apparently made for battles.
We fight and bleed and hurt just for the chance of love.
Why?
Is the goal–love, that is–so great that it makes the battles worth it?
Is love a drug that we must have, and we’ll do anything for it?
Does love, in some jacked-up way, actually control us?
It boils down to “what is love?”.
Is it the euphoria?
Or, somehow, does love entail the battles as well…?
I am not in love, nor do I miss love so badly that I want whatever I can take. This is not a conversation about me and my singleness. This is a conversation. Period. Although I do wish to love sometime, now, I am just speaking philosophically. Do not, at all, assume that I’m in love or that I miss love. You would be–and are–totally wrong!
I find it interesting that most of what you said is a song or a band. Hence, “what is love? baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more!”
“love is a battlefield”
There is even a band called lovedrug.
Love is a strange thing. You have Helen of Troy who’s face is said to have launched a thousand ships. Orpheous went to hell to bring back his love only to fail at the last moment. Juliet and Romeo had a love that brought them to death. So, this loops back to the question you posed earlier.
“What is love?”
I would like to answer that question with a simple statement.
God is love.
So, the question is better as who is love? It extends further than that though. You also said: “Is the goal–love, that is–so great that it makes the battles worth it?”
I propose that it is not what makes the great battles worth it, but it is what makes the great battles exist. You have heard that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,” but it is important to realize that He had little reason to love us. What have we done. Spit in His face and He keeps coming. Once again, God is love. Love is the reason we can see the sun rise and that we are still alive.
Finally, to quote the power puff girls. “Love makes the world go round.”
The CHALLENGE of loving might be a real hell on earth, we do hurt and bleed from it, but when we find ourselves in our deepest times of need, that’s when we find TRUE love expressed toward us, whether that be through God Himself, His Word, family, friends, etc.
Love is what “binds us together”, like the hymn says, because, as Tim mentioned, God is love! True believers are bound together in Him, therefore are also bound together in love. Like the chapel speaker was saying, we need to have that agape love for God, then we can show agape love to others without fear of hurting and bleeding because we are loving them as Christ loved them-selflessly. God continues to teach us (especially me) how to go about expressing His love to others and the benefits reaped far outweigh the pain. I praise God for allowing us to love, even if for now it is an imperfect form of His love!
[...] I once wrote in my personal blog a few poetically-structured thoughts on this thing called “love.” Check it: Is the goal–love, that is–so great that it makes the battles worth it? Is love a drug that we must have, and we’ll do anything for it? Does love, in some jacked-up way, actually control us? [...]