Deut 30:10-14;
We have heard these three sweet words - “I love you.” When you want to express your love to someone, you’ll say these words “I love you.” What a sweet words! What is this thing called love? How do we define it? Love is trusting… Love is helping… love is caring… love is giving… love is sharing… more? We know all these things. But do we really mean it?
For us, the law of love is just plain and simple: “Love your God and Love your neighbor as yourself.” It’s easy for us to say it. It’s very clear to us. We know love in theory, but not in action. There are some people say, “I love my friends. I love my parents. I love my children. I love my neighbors. I love every people I’ve met. However, I am very busy now. I have no time for them yet.” We only know love just in our head but not in our heart.
A Jewish scholar in the law wanted to test Jesus. He tried to see if Jesus correctly understood the basic commandment. When Jesus asked what was written in the law, the scholar
had a great answer – he had studied! But had he lived it? Jesus challenged him to see that Jesus’ view of neighbor went beyond his narrow definition. Jesus tells us the story of the Good Samaritan, a story about true love for one's neighbor. A Samaritan is willing to help even if it brought him trouble. He is not just willing to help but he is practical, he just do it. His compassion leads him to action – that’s a true love!
Jesus is the perfect image of true love, an unconditional love. He is the image of God who is Love. He laid down his life because of his great love for us. He wants us to experience the love that is in Him, and let it grow in our hearts. We have experience this love. True love is not just in our head, not up there in the sky or in the sea. It is something very near to us, very close to us. It is something in our hearts, something that we carry out – in our hearts. Our hearts are bigger than our minds.
If we would say, “I can share this love to my parents, to my children, to my friends, to strangers and even to my enemies,” it would mean “I am willing to help, to care, to understand, to give and ready to do good to others.” To feel pity and empathizing is not enough. True love must have the ability to do so. It must be internalized.
To love is not something that we know. It is something that we live. It is something that we do.
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