---Note-(So I caused just a little bit of controversy with this one the last time I posted it but I was looking at it and realized it should be put up again)
Think back to your first crush. The emotion, the anxiety we all feel, the funny looks you probably gave this person. Yet, you have to ask yourself, was it love? Is it love when we look at something or someone and find beauty? Is it love to feel "twitter-paitted" about someone? Is love merely romance? If not, what is true love?As I look back I believe I can say with confidence that love, real true love, is the only real emotion that we can trust. Even calling it an emotion is a crude way to put it and in no way defines it. The fact is, though, humanity has a very poor idea of love. The concept has been reduced to nothing but a physical attraction. No wonder the divorce rate is up. No wonder families are in chaos. No wonder people react to death all around us with, in most cases, apathy. There lies the problem, humanity is selfish and therefore doesn't care. When it comes down to it most people care about themselves more than others. Love should be about putting a person you love and care about above yourself. Love is caring about someone who isn't you. Does physical attraction play a part in romantic love? Of course, as it should. Yet God's idea of love transcend the ideas of romantic love. Romance is a part of the ideas of love in humanity but not all of it. Humans are more than just other beings with flesh, they are fellow people, potential brothers and sisters, perhaps future family. Some might not be believers, but all that means is that we should work as hard as we can to be examples of God's love and possibly help bring them back to the fold.So many times we talk in coffee shops, in church, in the news about tragedy. Hunger, war, poverty, injustice, its all tragic. I don't want to downplay these things, they are bad. But to make the statement that Christ in this day would care more about these issues than love and the progress of His kingdom, is an absurdity. People who make that assumption, might need to check their motives and step out of their own little world. There is a source to all of the hurt.The real human tragedy, relationships supposedly built on love are dying at alarming rates.The real human tragedy, our care for fellow humans have fallen down wht seems like a dark hole.The real human tragedy, the strong and popular (whatever that means) group and clique together while leaving the supposed weak behind to fall, alone.Take it from someone who had a pack mentality for years, cliques might share love between themselves, but they do not mirror Christ and therefore are wrong. Every human is on the same hotseat in front of God in the end. Everyone needs the same savior, one who knows what love really is and offers it freely. The real tragedy of humanity today is that we do not have a good idea of love, probably because we rejected and don't care for a God who created and showed us true love in the first place. That is something that is truly tragic.
