Love: A Meditation on the Eternal, the Present, and the Promise

“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love.
But the greatest of these is love.”
— 1 Corinthians 13:13

What Is Love?

Love is Sacrifice — given flesh, bone, and breath to walk and minister.
Love is the answer to hatred and the defeat of bitterness before either could take form.
Love is the completion of creation. It was the beginning — the reason the Omnipotent Father gave form, flesh, and breath to us, these walking dust-bunnies, fully knowing sin’s entrance and the necessity of sending His own Son, Yeshua, to seal the testimony in Blood for our redemption.

Love was before form, before time, before the manifested temporal.
Love was the beginning.

Love is the daily laying down of self upon the cross of our own afflictions — not for sorrow, but for refinement. These trials purify Love itself, ensuring that its expression grows true.
For the greatest Love is this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends, as the Beloved did.

Love is active life in union with our Source — the Radiance, the Ancient of Days, the All in All, the Father, the I AM That I AM.
Love is pain in formation, transforming into joy in action when viewed as sanctification in motion.

True Love never fails.
The substance of Love cannot diminish. It is only our capacity to feel Love that fades when life’s cares steal joy and strand the soul in spiritual destitution.
So then, as Paul wrote, “I speak to you as to children — widen your hearts also.”
Let your joy in giving be matched by the joy of receiving.

The First Love

We learn Love first by receiving it — tasting its texture, recognizing its divine fingerprint.
The first Love we ever taste is the soul suspended in eternity within the Father, as our vessels are readied in the amniotic waters of the womb.
We are bathed, if born of Him, in water and blood — souls kissed by Love and sent to temporary residence in flesh.

The second Love should be a mother’s heartbeat — that steady rhythm of care forming the young in flesh with joy as her diet, even through suffering.
I say should because this present darkness often robs such gifts, discarding life as “inconvenient.”

Love never fails.
We fail Love, friends.

Love to Come

Love is to come — Yeshua incarnate, returning as longing overshadows mercy.
He is perfection, the sublime life grown like a young plant in the Father’s hand.
He is the Promise we rest upon.
Without the promise of His return, who among us could stand?

Through constant trial and tribulation, we learn to rest in that Hope.
Thus, Love is before us, within us, and ahead of us:

Love was — creation’s beginning.
Love is — the sustaining presence.
Love is to come — the perfected unity where sin dies forever.

The three are braided, inseparable.
Without all three — past, present, and future — Love collapses under the weight of a world that cannot recognize it.

Love needs a Foundation: Yeshua.
Love needs the sustaining Power of the present: Yeshua in us, in sacred dialogue.
Love needs embodied Hope: Yeshua to come.

When Love “fails,” it is not Love that falters, but the ladders beneath it — our frail supporting structures, the scaffolding of faith, hope, and perseverance under duress.
Alone, we can do nothing.

Love must be genuine.
Genuine Love reveals itself.

The Discernment of Love

There are many facets to Love, many ways to fill and lavish it.
But the hardest part is not giving Love — it is storing it, preserving its warmth through the long winters of life’s trials.

So discern before you pour:
Ask, Can this soul reciprocate?
Ask, How will this act refill my own reservoir of mercy?
Ask, How does this reveal Yeshua in me?

And ask why you give.
Do you give Love for the joy of the act itself, or to be loved in return?
Have you poured out Love like a bartender at happy hour — freely, without thought of cost — only to find, when your own cup ran dry, no one left to serve you?

If so, know this: I have felt that sting more times than I can count.
It is not failure, merely an oversight of the soul.

Through constant participation in the Body of Christ — through prayer, fasting, seeking, and giving from abundance rather than depletion — we learn to Love without being destroyed when our pearls are trampled.

Love without discernment is perilous to a soul that longs deeply.
Be wise in where you draw your water.
Refill only from the true Source —
Yeshua, who reveals the Father.

Closing Reflection

In closing, and in full transparency:
Love is the most difficult virtue in which to practice discernment, because by its nature Love is self-expressive and overflowing.
The closer you draw to the likeness of Yeshua, the less you will find yourself able to withhold it.
In time, Love will become both your Life and your Language.

Sincerely,
Star-Dust
Beloved of Love

A whisper and a mystery for You all to ponder.

True Love sustains itself with the weight of reciprocation
resting upon the shoulders of the Risen Christ.