The month of February is known as
the month of love because of Valentine’s Day on 14th February. Adult young people look forward to proposing
their prospective sweetheart on this day.
Buying of red roses and dating becomes the order of the day. The question is whether love needs to be
expressed in certain ways on certain days or it can be expressed anywhere and
everywhere, and to anyone and everyone.
To be loved is human but to love
is divine. Every human being has an
instinct to be loved more than to love.
But when it comes to be loving, philosophers say that there are three
kinds of love.
Love with a Condition
This kind of love always begins
with a clause, most often with ‘if’. We
have often heard people saying ‘if you love me……. then I will also love you’,
‘if you do this for me…… then I will love you’ etc, etc. It always places a condition to love and to
be loved. There is some selfish interest
hidden and even manifested in this.
Love for a Reason
Very often we love people because
there is a reason to love them. People
say ‘I love you because you are beautiful, good, gracious, intelligent, rich,
poor’ etc, etc.
Love without any Reason or Condition
This kind of love transcends all
reasons and conditions, it is called selfless love. Jesus was a lover of this kind. He loved every one of us despite of what we
are not taking into consideration how we look and what we do, where we belong
and what we believe in.
Many of us love people because we
find them desirable and not deserving.
Human tendency and eyes can see only the outer things of person but the
divine tendency is to see the person through.
Look and sight can be deceptive but not insight. Let’s try to love the unloved, ignored,
harassed, marginalized, exploited and downtrodden and celebrate Valentine’s Day
with a difference. This is the kind of
love Jesus wants us to express as “AGAPE”.
Kasta Dip
