Foreigner: "I Want to Know What Love Is"

The eighties certainly had some great songs. One poignant hit by this American group struck a chord with so many listeners, including myself. Check it out here:

The best definition of love is found in the Bible. John 15:13 (Bible in Basic English) quotes Christ as saying, "Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends."

Love is further defined in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (BBE). "Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things."

Of course there is romantic love but agape love goes light years beyond physical attraction. John 13:34 (BBE) shows it's an act of obedience and emulation. "I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another."

Romans 13:8 (BBE) shows how agape love fulfills the Law. "Be in debt for nothing, but to have love for one another: for he who has love for his neighbour has kept all the law."

We also read in 1 Peter 1:22 and 23 (BBE) that we mustn't fake our love for Christ's siblings. "And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart: Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God."

And to be a fake follower of Jesus is a serious affront to the body of Christ. Look at what 1 Corinthians 16:22 (BBE) says. "If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes)."

If Christ hasn't arrived by Monday, I hope to point out which crowd we should run with.