Where Does Love Come From?

Top Five Google Results for 'Love':

1) Wikipedia Definition--"Love is any of a number of emotions related to a sense of strong affection and attachment."

2) "The Love Calculator"--Calculates the chance on a successful relationship between two people
(Who knew it was so simple?!?!)

3) LOVE Nightclub NYC

4) Image Results for Love--a LOT of hearts and a fat cupid

5) The Beatles LOVE--Cirque du Soleil show at The Mirage, Las Vegas

Of course, if you were thinking of something different at the mention of the word 'love,' just keep looking. There were 1,339,999,995 more results. Apparently, love is a popular topic!

You know, some of the most loving people I know are non-Christians. I would never say that only Christians can love; non-believers can love deeply. The world, in a sense, is aware of the beauty of sacrificial, faithful, and true love.

Love is a human trait. It is a human trait because it is a God trait and humans are image-bearers of God. We love because God loves. Our love, albeit, is a fallen, imperfect love, while God's love is perfect: God is love!

If you read 1Corinthians 13:1-13 to an unsaved friend, they would probably agree wholeheartedly with the text. They might even think it profoundly beautiful. It describes exactly how we want everyone to behave toward us. But actually live this way??? "Come on...we're only human!" is the cry of the age. By their deeds, unbelievers deny their God-given conscience.

So here are five thoughts on 'love' and the reality of its' origin:

1) The Bible is beautiful and speaks to the heart of man.

2) A loving atheist and a hateful Christian are both living contrary to their respective worldviews.

3) Being a 'loving person' does not merit salvation. Christ loved perfectly and it is in His obedience alone that we stand before God.

4) Non-Christians love because they are image-bearers and because God restrains their hatefulness. Christians love because they are image-bearers and because Christ breaks the bond of sin and frees them to live in obedience to God.

5) Evolution provides no explanation for love. The Bible does.


Just a few random thoughts about the reality of love and the witness it bears to a beautiful Creator.

"In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins" (1 John 4:9-10).


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