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God defines the nature of love by his very action of sending Jesus Christ to a world that has rebelled against its Creator. God chose to love us and forgive our sins, rather than hate us and punish us for our sins. Such a love has to be strong and constant, bearing the test of time and the trial of tribulation. In Sonnet 116, William Shakespeare describes this nature of love with these words:
... Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
... Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
God's love bore humanity to the doom of the cross, where the wages for our sins were paid. This is the kind of love that is to carry us over the threshold of our relationships with one another. -- Molldrem
... Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
... Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
God's love bore humanity to the doom of the cross, where the wages for our sins were paid. This is the kind of love that is to carry us over the threshold of our relationships with one another. -- Molldrem
