Why is LOVE the most Powerful Force in the Universe?

Happy Valentines Day - you romantics!  We know the saying so well, love is kind & love is patient etc. We see it printed on all sorts of cards and it's a slogan that everyone is familiar with.  Even the recent Disney film 'Frozen' was based on the message of 'true love'.  Not just the romantic kind, but the family kind.  I believe love to be the most powerful force in the universe and everything good in the world is ultimately motivated by love.  So why is this?

Let's look at all the good things in life.  If you really think about it for instance, to forgive someone who has hurt us, it requires a hint of love to be in our hearts, we have to say to ourselves well I don't agree what they've done but I let it go, even if small, it can make the difference.  Without this ounce of love you will be unable to forgive.  Joy and happiness ultimately stems from love too, without feeling loved or giving love we are ultimately joyless, compassion in our hearts can only be developed by love, caring for others more than self requires loving others first & we have to let go of selfishness, when we get annoyed about something our first response is anger, but what if we swap our response with love - wow powerful!  I'm talking to myself here too.  If you struggle with jealousy, what if you swap that response with being happy for people who have more than you - this is also a love response.

Agape means Unconditional Love

What I'm trying to get over here is that everything GOOD in life ultimately is found in LOVE in some shape or form.  When we think of love, often we jump straight to the conclusion we are talking about romantic love, but as you know there are all sorts of different loves; unconditional, affection of family and by friendships!  I know we are human and we all struggle with dealing with our emotions.  Our human love can be difficult and we often let people down.  Having said that, we are wonderful beings who can feel things so deeply.  We are absolutely amazing and we have the power to be amazing too by grasping the concept of love in our lives.

And why is love the most power force in the universe?
 

CHRISTIAN THOUGHTS
Through love we are able to change ourselves and  the world into something beautiful.  Now this is the pinnacle......in the bible it says 'God is Love'?  It's a slogan you just pass off without thinking deeply about it.  We often talk about God's love, however God is more than just being able to give us His love - GOD IS LOVE itself!  

If He is the creator of the universe then this all makes sense to me, that everything good comes from the source of life......God himself.  I have heard stories of those who have gone to heaven after a near death experience and returned to earth, more often than not, they talk of God being all loving, all they could feel was pure LOVE in his presence. The whole bible talks about God's love towards people, the whole christian life is based on love principles, the bible helps us learn about LOVE so clearly, ultimately being Christian ('Christ like') means 'adding love' to all our actions.  I think God is trying to tell us something important about Him, don't you?  Love hasn't just derived from nothing....this all makes sense completely when you realise it's because 'God is Love' and the whole world is based on it, all goodness is based on it too and that's because the person of who God is has been woven into the fabric of humanity. 

To me this proves faith world over.......there is a source to all the good in the world and it is based on love; it is God himself. Even if you don't have Christian beliefs we would all agree that LOVE rules the world, we can just think oh well that's the way it is..... however, to me if God wasn't true this concept of life and love would not correspond with what the bible says about love and about God, but it corresponds perfectly with all we know (see verses below).  Unlike our fallible human love, God's love is perfect and He loves every single person unconditionally.  We have been created to love and to be loved by people and by God.  If you want to know about real love....we need to go back to the source of all loves!!  Wow, this is so profound.  

I'll leave you with the words of Paolo Nutini "it was in love I was created, & in love in which I hope to die, oh I".  Love is enduring to the end.  x

The Way of Love - 1 Cor 13

So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.  Love never gives up.  Love cares more for others than for self.  Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.  Love is not proud,  it doesn’t force itself on others, isn’t always “me first,” doesn’t fly off the handle, doesn’t keep score of the wrongs of others, it doesn’t revel when others fail, it takes pleasure in the truth, puts up with anything, always trusts, always hopes, always looks for the best, never looks back but keeps going to the end!

God is Love - 1 John 4 7-10

My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our bad and the damage done to our relationship with God.  

Rom 8 v 38 - I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.


If God loves so much why is there so much hurt, sickness and disappointments when He could fix it?  This is a massive question which I will cover in another blog soon.