[Romans8:39] Love and Happiness

 

 

Happiness is a person's ultumate goal. True happiness is in the heart. An essential element of a happy heart is love.
A person might have everything that others envy and desire but still be unhappy, if he/she has nobody to love and is not loved.
How can we have love? Love is created when we give love and receive love. Love can be made only in reationships with others.
Our parents are the first people we meet when we are born.
Accordingly, the first love that we experience is our parents' love.
Our parents' love is instinctive and devoted. It has great influence but is not perfect since is limited by time and space.
Next, we meet friends and teachers and experience love. But this love is conditional since it is created under the condition of making friends or through teaching and learning. Therefore, this love is not perfect either.

We also meet the opposite sex and fall in love. When we fall deeply into this kind of love, we enter into marriage.
This love requeires physical and mental harmony. Therefore, when your family has perfect harmony physically and mentally, it can be called a happy family in love. Many couples, however, do not love their spouses in all of these aspects. Therefore, this love is imperfect.
We can live a happy life when perfect love complements imperfect love. Who can change our imperfect love to perfect love ?
Only the perfect love of God can change our imperfect love to perfect love.
"For I am conviced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38.39)

The depth of love can be tested immediately when an obstacle appears. In the verse above, it says that no obstacle can separate us from the love of God, which we can experience throught meeting Christ. Therefore, we can experience perfect love when we meet Jesus.

Dr.Yonggi Cho