Message #2847

[AndrewF]

The point is Martin, that you love because you are loved. If you had never been loved you would not know how to love anyone.
As a Christian the biggest truth is that we know we are loved by God, and the result of that knowledge is that we can love in return - indeed we should be filled with love for others and therefore want to do things which will be to their greater good where we can.
If you love someone you want to do things which will please them rather than making them sad, so we would also want to please God, but that is almost secondary if you are so full of love that you want to do the good thing anyway.
This is the theory at least! The trouble is that, being human, we none of us live up to this ideal and certainly not all the time - but that does not mean the principle is false...