What is Love - Part 1/3
Channel: Nadia Bet-Seber House of Hope
Date: 2019-03-08

I have this healthy, normal obsession with what is love? What is it that God requires us to do with Him and with our fellow pilgrims, on this journey we call life. What is love? I listened to a podcast from Rob Bell where he explained that the love your enemy, the love that is used in Greek here is Agape love – the kind of love that can transform an object, it can increase the worth of something. I have heard this story of the Philippines and how love has actually transformed someone. According to the story, when a father decides that his daugthers are ready for marriage, he broadcasts it in the little villiage. Then all the husbands to be can come and pay a price for his daugther, the price is in the form of the amount of sheep, if it is a beautiful girl then the father excepts more sheep. This particularly father had three daughters, for the beautiful one expected 10 sheep, for the average one he expected seven sheep, but for the plain one he only expected 3 sheep. 
The first potential husband, made an appointment for the daughter, the father was expecting a price for the most beautiful, instead the potential husband made a proposal for the plain one, but he offered to pay 70 sheep for the plain girl. The father accepted with amazement. On the day of the wedding the whole village arrived at the wedding, to almost expect disappointment for the potential husband, instead when the plain girl removed her veil, the whole town looked in utter amazement, because when she unveiled herself, she was indeed the most beautiful girl in the village, actually the most beautiful girl the villagers have ever seen. I belief that was a agape kind of love, the kind that actually transforms something into something beautiful, may God plant this love in abundance in our hearts, that we can also too transform people around us in the most beautiful, most complete, whole and worthy version of themselves. 
This past week I experienced also love, I soaked it up, like Spongebob Square pants, it was Valentines day and my one friend hosted all of us, our little circle of friends, with a beautiful, stunning spread. This made me thinking, God knows the love we require, sometimes He will send a gentleman to fill this void, sometimes He will send us a loving circle of friends, that will give us lipgloss, cakes and champagne. 
I was on a journey last week about psychopaths, people that only think about themselves, how they will cause a stir, affecting and rippling out to other people without giving it a second thought, I was asking God how is this possible? Have they found the button in their brain that switches off the second thoughts about their co-sisters and co-brothers emotions? Holy Spirit reminded me about this verse: 1Tim 4:2  Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
If the conscience is “seared”—literally “cauterized”—then it has been rendered insensitive. Such a conscience does not work properly; it’s as if “spiritual scar tissue” has dulled the sense of right and wrong. Just as the hide of an animal scarred with a branding iron becomes numb to further pain, so the heart of an individual with a seared conscience is desensitized to moral pangs.
But please not to worry, this is not a doom and gloom, a preachy video, this is a video of good news, of seeing the silver lining, this is a video that brings hope, I had the antidote, like the medicine to psychopaths happening to me this weekend. One of my ex-boyfriends, currently a dear friend of mine staying in Canada, and I’m based in South Africa, this is a shoutout to him and a kind and dearest thank you for being one of my groupies with the videos, sent me a message – would you like to date again?