Now days when anyone thinks of love, they picture a couple who are attracted to each other, have romantic feelings for one other, and kiss and such. Basically, anything you see in movies now days is considered love. This is inaccurate, though, as I've learned in the past little while.

Love is such a purer emotion and reality that people don't see anymore. Instead they are blinded by a false and polluted version of what love is. In the Bible it says that "God is love" so we receive love from him and his way of loving is an unconditional love. No matter how major or minor anyone could think the mistakes they've made in their lives, God loves you anyways. It doesn't matter where or on what you've messed up on, God still loves us and that is unchanging. That is how God has designed and desired for us to love each other, but the media is saying that we are to give up on the people in our lives who do wrong and to hate them. However that is wrong.

In the past few weeks, any readers who read this blog have heard a lot about my dear friends Luke, Jesse, and Sarah. Well this post, too, will be including them. As our time together has lengthened, we've grown closer to each other and to God. Our friendships with each other are the most precious treasures anyone could ask for. We love each other as siblings, yet we aren't afraid to stay stuff . My brothers tell my sister and I that we are pretty, and my sister and I tell our brothers that we think they are attractive and/or cute. In most friendships now days, that would be considered SO wrong or extremely weird, and most people would think that we are peaking towards falling into a dating relationships. But this isn't the case with us. As we grow closer as friends and as siblings in Christ, we realize how much we mean to each other and that we don't want any relationship like that. Our friendships and my siblings mean WAY to much to me to lose to some hormonal feelings.
The way we love is SO different from that of our world. We are truly like siblings in our hearts and minds. So often my sister and I will make mistakes that we'll remember or that have recently occured. It doesn't matter how stupid the decision was that we made but we forgive each other and realize that it isn't our place to critisize or lecture each other over the decisions that we've made. We simply say "that wasn't a smart decision" and "I love you". And that's it. Through love we help each other, and realize that the decisions we made were stupid, yes, but that it is something we don't have to be guilty of. And of course we also direct each other to our Father in Heaven. And we tell each other that as longs as we've made things right with God, we don't need to worry about the mistake we made any longer.
That there is the purest and most beautiful type of love I have ever seen or known. But, it's not by our own will or power that we are able to love the way we do. It all points up to one person, and that person is God. If it wasn't for God, and for him sending his son Jesus to die for each of us on the cross to take away ALL of our sins so that we can be forgiven. We'd never be able to forigve each other or love. God IS love so from him we receive the love we have. And are therefore able to love others. But it is from God's example that Jesse, Luke, Sarah and I are able to love each other the way we do. Anyone can love like that, you just have to seek that type of love from the source of all love - God. He's the ultimate lover and from his example all of us learn how to love each other. Just like how a Father teaches his son to play a video game or baseball, or how a mother teaches her daughter how to sing and cook and run a household, we too can learn from our Heavenly Father the way to love fully and purely.

" Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity." 1 Timothy 5:1-2

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