'I will love you for you. Not for what you have done or what you will become.' - What Love Really Means/JJ Heller.
Love can be a complicated emotion. Or at least that is how it has come to be seen. I don't believe 'love' is the complicated thing. Rejection, pain, heartbreak, confusion, lust, uncertainty. Those are the complicated things. I truly believe love is relatively simple. God completely lays out to us what love is.
'Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs, love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.'
Anything that strays away from these key characteristics of love is no longer love, but jealousy, pride, anger, and everything in between. Love is specific and determined. It is not conditional. We love people for who they are, not for what they have done, or what they will do. Love is everlasting and eternal, and cannot be lost or destroyed. God calls us to love in this way, without condition and without ceasing.
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