According to the artist
“Haddaway” love is best known as, “Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me no
more.” Google defines it as “an intense
feeling of deep affection.” A cynic on urban
dictionary defines love as “nature’s way of tricking people into
reproducing.” How about the Bible? Can we get a reliable definition of love from
God’s perspective? Yes, in Jesus.
When Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to
the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the
end. John 13:1
John prepares us for the picture
of love in the life of Christ. Jesus is
the best definition of love - a faithful unbroken love to the end. Consider five pictures in Jesus’ final hours
we get of love: