Love is present only there where there is no “I need you and I want you”.
“Father, then what is love?” a person will ask.
“You need me and I will die for you!” – this is where love is, in complete self-sacrifice and in sacrificing that pointless biological animal-like existence...
When you have the ability to sacrifice for the sake of love, without which our life becomes beast-like and completely loses its meaning, when you sacrifice this biological existence for love, only then does love exist.
I mentioned crucifixion and obviously we remember the One who is the source of love, Who Himself is called Love. We are talking about God, and our attitude towards God.
The genius, Dostoevsky says “Whoever loves life, he has completed half of his job”, and in “life” he means precisely this, real life, life as a revelation of love, life that brings forth love, life that can hold love, life which is the synonym for love.
So, this means that we cannot speak about love without God, because God is love, and without love we cannot speak about life, and without real life we cannot speak about human existence. Otherwise it becomes the existence of the beasts, and these beasts that don’t want God and don’t want real love of God, when all their interests are in biological pleasures, cyclic pleasures, they will turn into the unity of the beasts and they will bring forth the beast, and if I don’t want this, then I should seek real love, in other words, seek God, seek the relationship with God...
Archpriest Theodore Gignadze
(Sermon from 2011)
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