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within we only know about love as a word. We cannot fully know what love
is until it is experienced! Hence, love is a deep spiritual desire, and the soul
longs for the embrace. The need for love is only quenched when genuinely
extended and graciously received. For then, love is fulfilled or made
complete; love is reciprocal.
Individuals who take what they think they need or what they selfishly desire
do not satisfy love’s thirst. Love is not expressed by incessant wants and
greed, nor will love fulfill them. Humanity desecrates itself by the lack of
love, and the incessant greed to possess. The absence of love pits humanity
against itself, allowing the absence of love is like a cancerous disease of self-
absorption. This form of existence is the hellish atmosphere where evil
fulfills its dastardly deeds. Much like a pack of wild animals, evil takes only
to devour. Hell on earth is this atmosphere: evil is never satisfied by what it
takes or devours, and it continually looks for more participants and victims.
Evil never gives, except to get, so when something is not given out of love,
it is given as a lure to acquire, which is not a gift at all!
Look around you and see the sufferings within the world. Look at who is
suffering the most and ask why. Also, ask who is spiritually seeking God’s
will, attempting to reverse suffering. Sure, the wealthy give to charities, even
religions support the poor, but what is given only keeps the poor, poor.
After all, those who give need the poor, and as Jesus reminded us: “You will
always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.”
(John
12:6)
If the poor are willing, teach them how not to be poor and more
successful will rise above their own limitations To use a cliché, if you give a
man a fish, he eats for a day; if you teach a man to fish he eats for a
lifetime—but only if he willingly accepts the grace extended. Love is the
only way to live a true spiritual life, and the best example is what was asked
of Jesus and His reply: “On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to
test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he asked, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ ‘What
is written in the Law?’ He, Jesus replied. ‘How do you read it?’ He
answered: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your
neighbor as yourself.’ ‘You have answered correctly,’ Jesus replied. ‘Do this
and you will live.’”
(Luke 10:25-28)
Can the teaching be any clearer? Now, observe those who claim to be
Christians, and see a reflection of their deeds and understanding on this
issue. Furthermore, be honest, and know that if those who claim to be
Christian were Christian, the world would not be in the condition it is