what exactly is LOVE ?

michael jackson’s death, led to an interesting conversation with my sister. 

i was getting a little too much of michael jackson, today i guess. 

then i said, why does his name have to be announced worldwide, yes he is a pop icon. 

no doubt. but why does he deserve to be put up around the world. then, I thought of Jesus. 

He never had any reputation, nor died honorably but a death on the cross for our sins. 

That’s the true love of God, He send His one and only son to die for us. 

The question I have tonight, have we forgotten the reason we become believers or christians.. 

It’s Jesus death on the cross, that we believe in Him, not because He give me good things and  a blessed life. But it was the cross, the blood He shed .. 

well, my sister complained everything about how MJ did all the things he did.. I was irritated.. I told her, enough stop it. I told her this, Do you know that God loves him the way He love us.. 

It’s so easy, to be hypocritical of things, of people. Place judgements on others, things should not be done this way or that way, then u start to look at the person with a different eye. But the very thing God left us in His Word was to love one another, love even your enemies. Yes, loving one another.. I’m still learning. i’m at the tip of the iceberg.. But i know, that is required of me from the Lord. I choose to follow. The next question, my sister asked me was this. I don’t have love, I can’t love them.. dear sister, i’m not here to shame you or what, i just hope that some others reading this will be blessed to learn about the love of God. I said to her, you can’t love with your love.. simply because we are selfish beings,utterly love ourselves only. But only through God’s love, through the overflow of His love, then we can love. 

This very LOVE, i’m talking about is Jesus death on the cross, his full extent of His love. 

this is all i can say, ask the Lord to show you what’s his love is like, He will show you… His love on the cross.. Many months ago, i struggle, why would people cry over that cross.. I dont understand with my heart what it was like, but by knowledge i know. But when I asked the Lord showed.. I understood the love, but again it’s at the tip of an iceberg… my prayer, is that I will never forget it is because of the cross, that made me the way I am today. (: