No promises
(No demands)
No demands
(Love is a battlefield)
Love is a battlefield
What is love?
An emotion? Yes, I guess.
A Battlefield? Pat Benatar sang it was.
Battlefields imply strategies. Winners and losers. And losers in the battle often also lose their lives.
Believe me
Believe me
I can’t tell you why
But I’m trapped by your love
And I’m chained to your side
That surely doesn’t sound like the freedom promised by the kind of love Jesus and Paul and John (the apostle) talked about.
Bob Goff, an interesting guy, a “recovering lawyer” and honorary Consul for the Republic of Uganda, writer of “Love Does.” Goff recently said, “Love People isn’t a strategy; when it has an agenda, it isn’t love anymore.”
I guess we all know manipulators. We don’t like them. Even when we fall under the power of one.
No, love just does things for others. Not with an agenda, say, to get love back, or to gain some sort of power over the other. No, just service from the heart. Sometimes love means doing nothing–just quietly being there for someone. It means watching out for others’ needs. Awareness of the other person without thought of ourselves.
Love is a way of living from a heart in tune with God. I think that’s what Jesus was talking about when he said, “You will know my followers by their love.”
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