Leviticus
…but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. (Leviticus 19:18b)
True Love
Movies about love, books about love, TV shows about love, poems about love, songs about love, plays about love, and thoughts about love are all incredibly popular.
Because love is necessary.
But rarely do those forms of love actually depict what God, the inventor and creator of love, actually made love to be.
Jesus summarized ALL of the law of God using this verse as part of His definition of love. (Mark 12:31)
We can learn about love from books, TV shows, poems, songs, plays, and our thoughts. But we can only understand love from God. We can only receive love from God. We can only learn how to give love from God.
In fact, since the book of Leviticus is primarily a book of God’s Law, and since Jesus says God’s law is best summarized by the concept and action of love… we could say that Leviticus is a Love Story!
And when we learn about Love, we learn about Jesus. When we yearn for Love, we yearn for Jesus. When we understand true Love, we understand Jesus.