What's The Meaning of Love 2

<p>Tuesday 2nd February 2021</p> <p>A beautiful Tuesday to you in the name of Jesus.</p> <p>We are still talking about LOVE. What is the meaning of Love?</p> <p>Yesterday we began our conversation on love. We looked at different things people have said about love. I am sure you’ve watched movies, heard songs and read novels with all sorts of ideas about love. There is this movie called “Coming to America”. Eddie Murphy played the part of this prince that part who travelled to the US to find true love. He finally found a pretty African American lady called Lisa that he truly loved. After their first night out on a date, he was so excited on his way back home and he sang a song which in part said “…to be loved, oh! what a feeling to be loved!” The truth is that the idea in this song captures what love means to most people – IT IS A FEELING.</p> <p>It is very dangerous when our driving concept of love is tied mainly to feelings. When someone makes us feel good and cherished, we interpret it as love but the moment the person makes us uncomfortable, stretch us out of our comfort zone and demands we are responsible for our action, we usually say such people are not loving.</p> <p>Many years ago, I had just finished high school and I got my results, and I didn’t make my physics paper which was necessary for someone planning to study engineering. I remember my dad talking to me about how to resolve the situation, obviously he wasn’t excited about it. As he was recounting the experience he had when my brother was going into the university, he said something like “Niyi when my son (referring to my elder brother) finished, he had this result, and I knew what to do.” I lost the central point he was trying to make, and my mind just got hung up the words “when my son…” I wasn’t feeling very good about the situation and because of that I was feeling unloved and began to question my dad’s love for me, even his paternity! I began sobbing and saying in my mind “…is this man saying I am not his son” Who is my real father”? “maybe h