I Want to Know what Love is!

Simply defining what it means to love someone is not easy, if you do not believe that try it! Ask people, "tell me what does it mean to be in love?" Most will struggle. Song writers have wrestled with the concept also, writing songs like, “What does love have to do with it” or “More than a feeling.”  The group “Foreigner” ask the question in their hit song, “I want to know what love is.” That is the problem do we know? Listen to part of the lyrics…

“I gotta take a little time, a little time to think things over, I better read between the lines, in case I need it when I get older…I want to know what love is, I want you to show me…I want to feel what love is…I know you can show me.”

Interestingly enough Mark Jones the lead guitarist for Foreigner wrote this song as he was going through a crisis in his own life. The lyrics lead one to believe that Mark finally decided that only God could answer the question…Speaking about God’s love he writes I’ve got nowhere to hide it looks like love has finally found me.

He with the rest of his generation has been crying out…I want to know what love is. For it is as simple as this if we do not know what it is we cannot give it and probably will not recognize it when someone offers it to us. Not long ago I worked an event called the "Walk to Emmaus." At one point on that weekend a person came to me and said "there really isn't a catch is there?" When I responded with a puzzled look they said they had been waiting all weekend for the catch, for what we wanted, but had finally decided that God's love, His true love was unconditional.

You see the truth is this, you cannot do anything to make God love you any more, nor can you do anything to make Him love you any less. He loved you so much He sent His Son to die for your sins how much more can He love you? And while He may be disappointed at our actions, like us with our children, nothing they do makes our love go away. So if you really want to know what love is look to Jesus, you will not be disappointed!