Our purpose in life is to give, receive, and experience love; we were created for no less than this. This is a bundle to be held together, both the giving and receiving of it. Some want only to perfect the receiving. They become narcissistic takers. Some can give but are too proud to humbly receive love. We are meant to live in relationship with each other. It takes a lot of give and take, a lot of patience, a lot of caring and much listening. It takes patient enduring love that can love when it has been hurt. It takes forgiving more than seven times seventy. This being our purpose, love must always find a way to minister and to serve. The greatest thing in life is to experience the giving and receiving of love in human relationships. It is more satisfying than money, power and fame all rolled into one.
“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. We love because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:16, 19 (NIV)
