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DVLP LMTD KIT004: Ahava: Dude

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I love Chick Fil A, I love Vitamin Water, I love sleep, I love my dog, I love my Mom, I love my Family, I love my Friends, I love others, I love the Word of God, I love God. Why is it that I can use the same word, love, ten times in trying to describe my affection toward something – yet each time I used the word love it suggested a deeper affection. The word love in the English language is overused, abused, raped, and saturated. The word love in the English language is virtually dead to me. There is something wrong with our word and concept of love when I can say I love Chick Fil A and when I can say I love the God who created this universe in the same sentence. Same word, different capacities of love – well for me at least because I am sure there are some people who love Chick Fil A more than God. This is the problem with this word however, we use it everywhere all the time which creates a problem because we now have no idea what love really is.
The Hebrew word on your shirt is the word ahava אהבה which means love. This word is much deeper in meaning than the English word because it is composed of three basic Hebrew characters: אהב. These three letters actually are broken down into two parts: a two letter base or root, הב, and the first letter א, which is a modifier. The meaning of the two letter base, הב, is “to give”. The letter “aleph” א ,which precedes these two letters comes to modify the meaning of the base word, “give”. The meaning of אהבה, is “I give” and also “love”. This changes our whole concept of what love is and what it should be. Love is not just something you say to your girlfriend or boyfriend when you’ve dated for more than 6 months. Love is giving, it is a process to which you grow and develop because of giving to the one receiving. The more giving there is, the more there is a connection. This brings to life what Christ said when he reiterated the first two commandments to us when he said “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these” (Matthew 12:30-31 ESV). To give ourself to God as a living sacrifice is love (Romans 12:1). The way he gave Himself for us is love (John 15:13). Do you see? Love is giving. To love your neighbor is to give of yourself to them, to die to yourself and serve them just as the Son came not to be served but to serve (Matthew 20:28). We as Americans have no idea what it means when we throw around phrases that “God is love”, or “I love you more than anything”. Love is giving and it’s in that process of giving that you experience love and how they experience love. (Ahuva Bloomfield)
Love is not something that you fall into. Love is something that you build, develop and put time into. Wouldn’t it be easy for us if we just “fell” into love? No actually because love is created and grown when we are interacting and giving. It’s the process that builds to loving that is important. If one were to just “fall” into love that would be missing the most important part of what love is which is the building process up to loving. Giving is a condition that creates and sustains love. Without giving, there is no connection that is sustaining. When we see this word used in it’s original context in the Old Testament we see a picture of God’s love for His people. Proverbs 10:12 says “Hatred stirs up strife, but love אהבה covers all offenses”. This word love is the word ahava, and we see that it’s the love that Christ gave for us on the cross that continues to cover a multitude of sins. If it wasn’t for His giving love then we would be without a propitiation. That is how we can come to understand that God is the embodiment of love – God is love. Even in the Greek the word we see for love here is agape ἀγάπη, which is God’s selfless love for us. That selfless love is the continual giving of himself to cover up for our sins. Agape isn’t attained until we start to be people who give. Agape isn’t possible if we just “fall” in love. You don’t “fall” into selflessness – you work at it. Agape only works when we work. Agape is only true when you ahava someone. We need to grow and develop in our understanding of what love truly is. (Ahuva Bloomfield)
Now take the pen that this kit came with and start writing down things about God’s love (Deuteronomy 17:18). Start writing love letters to people about how God loves them. Start drawing pictures to people of things they love. Start drawing pictures of things you love. Then realize that the things you draw and the things you say to people through words and pictures are only a reflection of everything that has been given to us out of the ahava that God has for us. When we become people who contemplate on how God gave Himself for us so that we can dwell with Him forever is when we begin to grasp what love is.

“Love, Jewish Style” Jewish Mag. 19 Oct 2007, 00:45 UTC. Ahuva Bloomfield, 21 Oct 2007 .

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