WHAT TYPE OF LOVE
             'Life, the Lord promised to them that love Him" James 1:12
                                           Edward Proffitt, Th. D

Faith, hope and love are never dying characteristics that cry out biblically
for Christian lives. There are three, "but the greatest of these is love"
(1 Corinthians 13:13). Media makes a great deal about a wrong type of
love. Much is reduced of a Hollywood love that does not seem to last
very long, but the love of 1 Corinthians 13:13 says "abideth". It is not
something that is a bedroom season and then sweep under the rug.

 

The affiliation of the overworked populace is brought on by the pressure
and mental strain under which people work today to make a living. It
used to be that a person could leave their days work and go home to a
loving family environment. Today it seems family love has collapsed under
the burden of today's lifestyles. keeping up with today's lifestyles. Keeping
up with fashions, pleasures, credit cards and giving to the kids (what I never
had), keeps families on a roller coaster of anxiety.

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The right type of love calms and soothes clamored nerves, it brings happiness
and contentment. Right type love helps the body to function harmoniously
and to be its best. Right type love wards off most of the afflictions caused by
unhappiness, tensions and stress, it keeps the family unit from becoming
frazzled and shredded

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As you think of the right type of love it doesn't seem silly that a mother's
gentle kiss can stop a child's scaped elbow from hurting. neither is it
imagination when a loved one enters a sick room and seems to have an
immediate soothing effect upon the suffering patient. Sine love is the
foundation of all the benefits of Christ sacrifices for us; it is easy to accept
the fact of the healing power of love and our love.

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There is a real truth in the writing of the hymn "When nothing else could
help, love lifted me".  So, the question is -- WAT IS THE RIGHT TYPE OF LOVE.
John the gospel writer tells us of God's Love in JOHN 3:16 "God so loved the
world that \HE gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish but have everlasting life. The unknown poet puts it this way,
"Love is a funny thing, it is just like a lizard, it wraps around your heart and
pulls at your gizzard".

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Life experience tells us ha real love is not a puppy love, it is a love that abides,
blossoms, endures the aches and pains of societies intensity. A good prayer for
our bustling; world ----, help me to conquer the right type of love for me.

 

 

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