Love was designed by GOD for relationships between himself and his
angels & humans, and between each other. You cannot "love"
yourself...that is why masturbation, with all its fantasies, is
sin...it is self-centered (which is the fallen sin condition that
Eve & Adam caused)!
When we are saved by the Holy Spirit, we become others-centered like
GOD is, and He begins to re-create us from the inside out
(unlike "religion" which tries to change people from the outside
in...the core is still spiritually dead and is just a
fake "veneer").
People use the soulish "masturbation" excuse that they have to "love
themselves first before they can love others"...."self-love"....
[they usually never get around to others, in their life]....and real
love wasn't designed to do that...it was only designed to be spent
on God and other humans, like a water cycle!
Real LOVE is what you do for ALL others that is in their highest or
best interests, anytime, anywhere, selflessly (24/7)!
C. S. Lewis wrote in MERE CHRISTIANITY that "it is better to forget
about yourself altogether" and focus on all those you come in
contact with, renouncing pride & self-centeredness, because we can
easily be deceived by the enemy if we focus on ourselves....he
writes "as long as you are looking down on others (putting yourself
first), you will never see what is above you"! Christ said that the
only law now is love!
"Love your neighbor as yourself" means---> see to it that your
neighbor (everyone) has it just as good as you do!
1 Corinthians 13:7 The real thing [love] applied never fails!!!
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - DV

Love to a loveless world is as water to a barren desert---Jim
Sorrell

..........Love withheld is Hate!............

***It's been said that "It doesn't cost anything to be
nice!"....True!....
....But it does cost everything when we're not!-----------

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