"Acting Love" by Pastor P.T. Mammen
Scripture Reference: Song of Solomon 5:8-16
• Love is patient. Love comes from taking the time to get to know the other person rather than rushing into a relationship too quickly. Love requires a dedication of time and energy.
• Love is loyal. Love requires commitment People need to depend on each other in times of stress, illness or financial hardship
• Love is family. Love does not end with that one special person in our life. Love extends to parents, children, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins and in-laws.
• Love feeds the soul. Love nurtures a part of the self that would feel empty and desolate without the sustenance of love in our life. Love makes us a better person, someone who is capable of caring for and considering the needs of more than just ourselves. Love is never violent or abusive. Love is meant to be shared. Love is most fulfilling when we give it away and share the experience with someone that we love and care about.
Here are additional personal principles of love…
1. When I say “I love you” there is a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward you. A feeling of attraction towards you – a sense of underlying oneness that fills my heart with joy.
2. An expression of my own passion and I do so without any feeling towards me.
3. It doesn’t mean that I feel ownership over you, or that I have expectations of your behavior or rigid ideas of future.
4. I love you for what you are now, not for what I hope you will some day become. I have no plans to change you; I do support your desire to grow.
5. I do respect your right to have your own feelings and your need to learn your own lessons in life. If I can help I will wait to be asked, and otherwise will allow you to go through the experiences you need to choose.
6. I will be in touch with my own feelings and desires and communicate them to you without any expectation that you will act on them.
7. I am happy with or without you. My bliss is my responsibility alone.
8. I leave you free to be yourself to think your thoughts, judge your tastes, follow your inclinations behave in ways you decide are ways to your liking. I have no right to judge or change your behavior.
9. I desire that you be happy- if your time spent with me is not joyful then you are welcome to go your way with my love and support still with you.
10. We are two separate whole people, who have chosen to walk side by side through life for a time. I rejoice in the ecstasy of the present – moments we share together.
Application: Jesus gave us the new commandment that we love one another.
John 13:34. Does that mean we should love others when they do not love? Do we have to even bear the cross for others? Love is distinguished for the conduct it produces. Feeling is a result of that loving conduct.
1Cor. 13: 1-13 defines the conduct of love. Patience leads to permanence. Not in a hurry to throw away or trade.
Love creates caring heart in the lover and in the loved. Christ’s love for us creates in us a loving heart. Love induces Christ likeness.
Love is reassuring and creates security, and it is alive when it is giving.
You can stiff-arm people and keep them out or we can open arms and let them in. This is inviting vulnerability, but the alternative is to be in the coffin of selfishness.
Christ’s love compels us. 2Cor. 5:14
• Love is patient. Love comes from taking the time to get to know the other person rather than rushing into a relationship too quickly. Love requires a dedication of time and energy.
• Love is loyal. Love requires commitment People need to depend on each other in times of stress, illness or financial hardship
• Love is family. Love does not end with that one special person in our life. Love extends to parents, children, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins and in-laws.
• Love feeds the soul. Love nurtures a part of the self that would feel empty and desolate without the sustenance of love in our life. Love makes us a better person, someone who is capable of caring for and considering the needs of more than just ourselves. Love is never violent or abusive. Love is meant to be shared. Love is most fulfilling when we give it away and share the experience with someone that we love and care about.
Here are additional personal principles of love…
1. When I say “I love you” there is a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward you. A feeling of attraction towards you – a sense of underlying oneness that fills my heart with joy.
2. An expression of my own passion and I do so without any feeling towards me.
3. It doesn’t mean that I feel ownership over you, or that I have expectations of your behavior or rigid ideas of future.
4. I love you for what you are now, not for what I hope you will some day become. I have no plans to change you; I do support your desire to grow.
5. I do respect your right to have your own feelings and your need to learn your own lessons in life. If I can help I will wait to be asked, and otherwise will allow you to go through the experiences you need to choose.
6. I will be in touch with my own feelings and desires and communicate them to you without any expectation that you will act on them.
7. I am happy with or without you. My bliss is my responsibility alone.
8. I leave you free to be yourself to think your thoughts, judge your tastes, follow your inclinations behave in ways you decide are ways to your liking. I have no right to judge or change your behavior.
9. I desire that you be happy- if your time spent with me is not joyful then you are welcome to go your way with my love and support still with you.
10. We are two separate whole people, who have chosen to walk side by side through life for a time. I rejoice in the ecstasy of the present – moments we share together.
Application: Jesus gave us the new commandment that we love one another.
John 13:34. Does that mean we should love others when they do not love? Do we have to even bear the cross for others? Love is distinguished for the conduct it produces. Feeling is a result of that loving conduct.
1Cor. 13: 1-13 defines the conduct of love. Patience leads to permanence. Not in a hurry to throw away or trade.
Love creates caring heart in the lover and in the loved. Christ’s love for us creates in us a loving heart. Love induces Christ likeness.
Love is reassuring and creates security, and it is alive when it is giving.
You can stiff-arm people and keep them out or we can open arms and let them in. This is inviting vulnerability, but the alternative is to be in the coffin of selfishness.
Christ’s love compels us. 2Cor. 5:14
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