Title: I love you, I love you
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Psalm 18
1. O LORD, my strength, I love you.
2. The LORD is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my God, the rock of my refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3. I will call on the LORD, who is praiseworthy, and I will be saved from my enemies.
1 John
16. We have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love. He who lives in love abides in God, and God in him.
17. In this way love is perfected for us, that we may have boldness on the day of judgment, just as you are, so are we in the world.
18. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, for fear has a penalty, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
19. We love because he first loved us.
20. Anyone who says I love God and hates his brother is a liar, and he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
21. We have received this commandment from the Lord, and he who loves God must also love his brother.
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Subject: To be loved, to love
Text: Psalm 18:1-3, 1 John 4:16-21,
“People feel happy when they know they are loved by someone.” In the words of the poet and novelist Hugo, Victor Marie, author of Les Miserable. The pursuit of happiness is the desire of all human beings throughout the ages. There is a saying that began to be circulated in the United States and England at the end of the 20th century. It means 'Happy Hunt'. “The greatest happiness of the greatest number” is not unrelated to British utilitarianism. About 20 years ago, Professor Paul Samuel of the United States gave a lecture called [Happiness Formula] in a university lecture hall. The formula for happiness he spoke of was ‘happiness = possession/desire’ (H=P/D). Since then, the passion for the pursuit of happiness has increased. It forced the middle class to follow the codes of greed and codes of envy. The flow of well-being, in which consumption is a virtue rather than economy and frugality, is not irrelevant to this. It makes you think about the end of the values that have lost the virtue of temperance.
So should we shun all love desires? Should I condemn it or choose asceticism? no. Just as gluttony, craving food for the body, harms health, so does binge eating that refuses to eat. The desire for love given to man was given by the Creator (Isaiah 55:1). There are ways to overcome the extremes and realize happiness. We think of ‘harmony of being loved and loved’. It is a necessary harmony not only in human relationships, but also in the relationship between the Creator and creation. It is also the meaning of the Shema of the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 6:4-8) and the new commandment of the New Testament (John 13:34). The thirst for love is not enough just to have human relationships. It requires a relationship with God, the source of love (1 John 4:16-21). This experience of love requires the expression of ‘I love you’ to each other.
‘To be loved’ (Gospel hymn 128) and ‘I love you! It is also the content of ‘My Jesus’. There is a saying, “In order to be able to give something, you must first receive it.” In the words of Christian and psychiatrist Paul Taurnier. It seems to be a step forward from the words of Yugo, who was a poet and novelist. Love is like the life of the soul. The thirst of the soul is thirst for love. Its purpose is to name happiness. Love and happiness are inseparable. In the book <A Place For You>, “It is not enough to ‘know’ that you are loved. We need to ‘feel’ that love in our hearts.” Being loved and being loved, the expression ‘I love you’ to everyone is essential. As we meditate on the ‘happiness’ of Bible Power, one of the things that makes what we already have the most precious is an expression of love. ‘I love you… I love you, son! I love you, my daughter!’ Among the ‘good words used to build up virtue’ and ‘words of grace’, the expression ‘I love you’ takes center stage.