John Lennon once said, “It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love. It matters only that you love.” While he said this a number of decades ago, this statement reflects the sentiment of our age. We shouldn’t fight because we should love. We shouldn’t exclude because we should love. We shouldn’t judge because we should love. If we would just love one another, everything would be fixed.
In the Bible, God does not disagree with John Lennon on the primacy of love. However, God does disagree that it is unimportant why we love or how we love. And Lennon’s statement makes a significant assumption. It assumes that we even have the capability of living a life of love. After all, very few people would disagree with the sentiment of loving other people, but our world is not as a result free from wars or judgment or prejudice. While it may be true that our greatest human need is to love and to be loved, Lennon’s statement does very little to equip us to live lives of love.
So, how do we get love? How do we experience it, and how do we find the power to give it?
Dan
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