What's Love Got to Do With It?

Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do With It," is a familiar song to many. And I must admit that I am a Tina Turner fan. But, as I ponder over the lyrics.

Oh whats love got to do, got to do with it
What's love but a second hand emotion
What's love got to do, got to do with it
Who needs a heart
When a heart can be broken

I can't help but think, wow this contradicts what I believe and what the word of God teaches me. This is not the way Jesus wants us to feel about love. There is a verse in that song that I do agree with, the fact that love is a second hand emotion. The type of love that Ms. Turner is singing about in this song is "emotional love." The love that Jesus wants us to have for one another is an "action love." Now, I realize the context in which Ms. Turner wrote this song. Her marriage to Ike was painful to say the least and this song was a way for her to release the pain. I totally get that. What I mean by this is displaying love through your actions. You ask, "How do you do this?"

Wesley's notes to
I Corinthians 13:4 describes the action of love exceptionally well:

The love of God, and of our neighbour for God's sake, is patient toward, all men. It, suffers all the weakness, ignorance, errors, and infirmities of the children of God; all the malice and wickedness of the children of the world: and all this, not only for a time, but to the end. And in every step toward overcoming evil with good, it is kind, soft, mild, benign. It inspires the sufferer at once with the most amiable sweetness, and the most fervent and tender affection. Love acteth not rashly - Does not hastily condemn any one; never passes a severe sentence on a slight or sudden view of things. Nor does it ever act or behave in a violent, headstrong, or precipitate manner. Is not puffed up - Yea, humbles the soul to the dust.

So try to not get caught up in emotional love and withholding our love because of what someone has done to us. Love is an action and is displayed in how we treat one another. People will come in and out of your life and people will hurt you, especially those who are closest to you. But God tells us to LOVE in spite of. After all, God loves us not because we are so lovable, but because HE IS LOVE! Are you?


I Corinthians 13:2 (God's Word Translation)

I may have the gift to speak what God has revealed, and I may understand all mysteries and have all knowledge. I may even have enough faith to move mountains. But if I don't have love, I am nothing.



Love YOU!
NBJ