Love: The Missing Dimension

This is just a glimp of what I have writen about love. This is just a portion in the first chapter 1. Love: The Missing Dimensio in the book to be entiled The Power Of Love. 

Once love is properly understood at the level of mankind then inside you will flow rivers of happiness and abundance. Love is not emotion but it has power to rise up a wide range of emotions. For so long love has been wrongly defined. Some may agree that love is a feeling of tender affection for someone, which is not true. Some people say love is feeling desire for somebody or something or to love means to like something very much. Still this is not true. When you prefer something doesn’t mean loving it. Feeling tender affection for somebody is the outcome of love but not love by itself.  Happiness, sadness or sorrow all can be expressed in love context. Therefore love accommodates variety of emotional expressions. Love is not emotions but can be accompanied with emotions. Feelings come and go, but love does not. Love endures. Anyone can express sadness for your bad fortune but only pretending; and he is laughing inside.

 Not only emotional context but also love have attitudinal context. In love there is a perception of value and a commitment of will. Perceiving good for something or somebody can originate from love. With love you can have positive, right and good attitude towards someone or something. Love itself is not just attitude but it is beyond attitude. Someone can have good attitude but without real love. She can help you; she can give you her possession but no love within. Apostle Paul put it in such a nice way. He said, ‘If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.’ (1 Corinthians 13:3 NIV) Doing a good thing does not necessarily mean you have love.

Love is a package for human being fulfillment. In this package many people know few things and not love in totality. Love is self sufficient. It is more than emotions and attitudes.

Love has great understanding that surpassed all knowledge. In love there is more than just knowledge. No one can afford to have love without extraordinary knowledge. Once you find love, true love then you will be enlightened with supreme knowledge. No one can have love without Christ.  You can have lovely emotions and lovely attitude but without love. Many have been confused with lovely emotions and lovely attitude thinking it is love. To this kind of love I am talking about, here is the principle, ‘That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.’ (Ephesians 3:17-19 KJV) Love has dimensions; the breadth, length, depth and height. These dimensions is to help man understand or at least to conceptualize that there is breadth; there length, depth and height. The question is whether you have understood fully all the dimensions mentioned.

New Living Translation Bible put it in such a simple language, it says, “And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is”. (Ephesians 3:18 NLT) having length, we can be at different points on the same line and having depth we can be at different depth in the same love. One can be deeper than the other and yet another one can be at deepest part than the two but it may not be at the end of the depth; not at the bottom. It’s better to ask yourself how deep, how wide, and how high you have gone so far.

You should never worry because we have power to understand it to the level of releasing love energy from our life. That ability, that power to understand is already put in us by God our Father before we were born. In the matter of fact he put it in us before we were conceived; before the foundation of the world. He designed us in such a beautiful way to have ability to comprehend his love but with principle. The principle is that we can only understand it deeper, wider and higher if we are connected with Him. Because His wisdom is spiritually discerned, so we must be not natural or carnal to understand and accommodate it but spiritual.   

The form of knowledge in love is far better beyond ordinary knowledge you know. It is not only that there is knowledge in love but love is supreme knowledge by itself. The knowledge or understanding nature of love made some people fail to comprehend it. Significant number of people fails to comprehend the mysterious knowledge of love and ending up focusing on emotions and attitudes. I guarantee you that, once you got love in you then you will become better human being. Your actions and reactions will be different, unique and better.

There are three things which enclosed the life of every human being on the earth. These include; emotion, attitude and knowledge. No single human being can live without experience emotional feelings. Everyone has perception of values and commitment of will. And everyone has form of knowledge. In love all the three are found and they are extraordinary.   

My mind blew up when I read in a very deep seeking to understand it.  “If I speak in human or angelic tongues, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing” (1 Corinthians 13:1-3)

 What is Apostle Paul telling us?  He was making a comparison between love and many other things. Paul went far concluded that, even if one understood mysteries and all knowledge without love he or she is nothing. Paul said, even if you have a faith that can move mountains but without love still you are nothing. What does nothing means? Nothing might mean three things I need you to understand:-

I like this chapter in my new book still in process to be entitled THE POWER OF LOVE

Dr. George
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania