I want to know what love is

Do you remember the song I want to know what love is? It was released back in 1984 by Foreigner. The singer seems confident that his beloved can show him what love is, and that love is real. We humans prize love, we long for it and look for it. The constant outpouring of love songs in the charts shows that it’s a major preoccupation. Television is full of programmes making a spectacle of love and the list of dating websites is endless. he world is on a quest for the perfect relationship. The problem is that we will never find perfect love among ourselves, we are broken and flawed. If we search for the perfect human relationship we will always be disappointed.

However, it is not surprising that we long for love this way given that we were made by a God who is love (1 John 4:8). Which means that if we want to know what love is and experience perfect love we must look to him. God is always love. He doesn’t choose to be love one day and something else the next. He doesn’t wake up thinking “What shall I be today?” He is perfect, flawless love for ever. Father, Son and Holy Spirit love each other eternally, beautifully, completely. Which means that everything he does is perfectly loving, something we see most brilliantly at the cross where the Lord Jesus dies in our place. Once we have found the source of all love in Him, only then will we be able to enjoy love in our human relationships.