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Love Is Unselfish
Dear Editor;
The word ‘Love’ I believe is the greatest of all words in the English Language. Great writers, poets, singers, film makers, philosophers based their philosophies around this simple and precious word ‘love’. When this fascinating word is traced to its root from the Greek concept it gives us the true meaning of the word ‘love’ from four Greek words: Eros, Philia,Storge and Agape. Eros has to do with sexual love between a man and woman; Philia means close friendship or brotherly love in Greek; Storge is family love, the bond among mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers; but the greatest love is what most experts called the ‘agape love’ or the God kind of love; selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love, of all human beings.
This is the God kind of love Jesus spoke about in St.John’s Gospel Chapter 15:12 which are as follows: ‘‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you”.
This is the type of love Gandhi, Mandela and King demonstrated to their enemies in the world. Gandhi wrote: “An eye for an eye gives the world a blind eye”. If we can follow this profound philosophy of love we can live in a better world devoid of hate, greed and malice. What we need in Guyana is the God kind of love in our hearts that can keep the prison doors closed that will give us lasting peace even in our parliament and our own homes.
The ultimate source of all encouragement is the fact that God is love, and He loves us and has a perfect plan for us. We live in a world full of hate, greed and human selfishness; we search for love in the person we love but discover sooner or later we still long for a deeper and inner love that only God can give to us but no human. We search for love and joy in money, sexual pleasure, drugs, rum and false friends but we sooner or later discover it’s all a mortal form of illusion. We even try psychology and all types of psychiatric treatment but found it’s of no use to us but gives us a mental break down.
We search for love in fulfilling our academic dreams by hard studies and discover that our education created more envy, strife and hatred in our lives from our evil minded contemporaries. We earn money have the most beautiful husbands and wives and soon discover our wives and husbands are unfaithful to us and they have become our mortal enemies when our beauty, fame, popularity and money have come to an end. Then we suffer in fear, rejection, and humiliation and even ended up committing suicide or mental suicide until we die slowly. Our endless perpetual search for love in this material world like Alexander the great can never be found in material things that will fade away like our dreams in the pristine beauty of the serene night.
The illustrious King Solomon the wisest and richest of all Kings if anyone was going to find purpose in “life under the sun” it would be Solomon. He had all the wealth, power, sex, wisdom and achievements he could possibly pursue. And he went after them with relentless passion. He had 700 wives and 300 concubines yet he found life to be meaningless with all his worldly possessions.
Though King Solomon possessed a great abundance of wealth, wisdom, knowledge and divine power to rule over his people he referred to his possessions as ‘vanity ‘meaning useless in the Hebrew the state or quality of being valueless, futile, or unreal something that is worthless or useless. He penned great spiritual wisdom from the book of Ecclesiastes; he wrote it as a Preacher and a Poet who realized that all his material possession will fade away but his soul shall never die and he longs for a place with his Creator when he is gone from this world. Just like Jesus said:
The Bible indicates that love is from God. In fact, the Bible says “God is love.” Love is one of the primary characteristics of God. Likewise, God has endowed us with the capacity for love, since we are created in His image. This capacity for love is one of the ways in which we are “created in the image of God.”The love of God in our hearts will give us the ability to love our wives, husbands, children and the human race. No amount of wealth can replace the love of God. What we need in Guyana is God’s love the cure for all our social problems.
Rev.Gideon Cecil
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