What Does Love Look Like?

"What does love look like?
Is the question I've been pondering,
What does love look like?
What does love look like,
Is the question I've been asking of You.
Once believed that love was romance, just a chance,
I even thought that love was for the lucky and the beautiful,
I once believed that love was momentary bliss, that love was more than this,
All you ever wanted was my attention, all you ever wanted was love from me,
All you ever wanted was my affection, and to sit hear at your feet, so tell me,
What does love look like,
Is the question I've been pondering,
What does love look like,
If all of life comes down to love,
Then tell me, what does love look like,
Is the question I've been pondering,
What does love look like...
Then I sat down, a little frustrated and confused,
If all of life comes down to love, then love has to be more than sentiment, more than selfishness, and selfish gain,
Then I saw Him there, hanging on a tree looking at me,
I saw Him there, hanging on a tree looking at me,
He was looking at me, looking at Him, staring through me,
I could not escape those beautiful eyes...
And I began to weep and weep and weep...
He had arms wide open, a heart exposed
Arms wide open He was bleeding, bleeding...
Love's definition, love's definition was looking at me,
Looking at Him, hanging on a tree,
I began to weep and weep and weep...
This is how I know what love is, this is how I know what love is,
This is how I know what love is,...
And as I sat there, weeping and crying,
Those beautiful eyes, full of desire and love, and He said to me,
YOU SHALL LOVE ME, YOU SHALL LOVE ME ...
With arms wide open, a heart exposed, arms wide open, bleeding, sometimes bleeding,
With arms wide open, a heart exposed,
Arms a wide open, bleeding, sometimes bleeding, He said,
YOU SHALL LOVE ME, YOU SHALL LOVE ME, YOU SHALL LOVE ME...
If anybody's looking for love in all the wrong places,
If you've been searching for love, come to Me, come to Me,
Take up your cross, deny yourself, forget your father's house and run with Me,
For you were meant for abandonment wholeheartedly,
You were made for Someone greater, Someone bigger, so follow Me,
You'll come alive when you learn to die,
"Arms Wide Open"' Misty Edwards

"Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law."
Romans 13:8-10

What is real love? We live in a world where love is romanticized, where there are many preconditions, where couples get married with parachutes on, only to bail out and pull the ripcord when things don't go as expected. The world is full of jealousy, betrayal, and we are bombarded with examples of such things continuously. In the worldly concept there is no forever, no trust, and the landscape of humanity without Jesus is littered with broken and scarred people struggling through life searching for real love and acceptance.
God is love! For those who have received Him, He walks with us and never leaves or forsakes us, and for those who don't known Him yet as Lord and Savior, or those who have backslidden, he is only as far away as our confessions and repentance. Once we have received such amazing love we are then free to share real love with others.
Today believe, receive, and bask in His Real Love.