Comments on: Pain, Tears, Shame, Duty, Love, weirdness https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/02/pain-tears-shame-duty-love-weirdness/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:10:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Love is offensive. (Patti Smith on the side) | Dark Brightness https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/02/pain-tears-shame-duty-love-weirdness/comment-page-1/#comment-3295 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:35:13 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=3625#comment-3295 […] Love is a hard master: harder that the law, for the law can be completed. Love never is. It never gives up. Love drives us to perfection: and our new command is to love, putting the needs of our brothers and sisters first and serving them. […]

]]> By: chokingonredpills https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/02/pain-tears-shame-duty-love-weirdness/comment-page-1/#comment-3293 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 06:28:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=3625#comment-3293 “Love is a hard master: harder than the law, for the law can be completed. Love never is. It never gives up. Love drives us to perfection: and our new command is to love, putting the needs of our brothers and sisters first and serving them.”

Along with the verses from 1 John 3, I love what you said (quoted portion). It applies to any relationship and it throws out the argument that love is all about being nice, tapping on the emotional (or the tingles) only. But love is also discipline and discipling.

And in the context of being the man or husband in the relationship, leading means putting the needs (as opposed to the wants) of the wife/woman first. Jesus, being the head of the Church, knows our need for salvation and therefore, His Love meant His sacrifice for us.

“And if the world does not consider you weird, you are not obeying this command. If this does not hurt, you are doing it wrong.”

Love hurts. Rebuking a brother (or sister) can hurt as well as being rebuked.

This is a great post. Thanks for writing it.

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