Blood related relatives (now pay attention to God's laws and stories of the bible in how to handle close relatives, it isn't a "joke." The bible does give warnings that some family members are not "good.")
Love for a disabled person. Caring for them in a way that helps them survive. If they are in pain, you feel their pain.
Love for a person of a different tribe or nation. Maybe you married a person from the "Cherokee" tribe, but you feel the love for the "Navajo" if they are suffering.
Empathy and sorrow for the people suffering in violent or wicked areas. Love for the Syrian refugee. Love for the people who are victims of terror.
Love for an "in-law" (now pay attention to God's laws and stories of the bible in how to handle close relatives, it isn't a "joke." The bible does give warnings that some family members are not "good."). Sometimes this love for in-law can transfer into love for similar "people groups or individuals" this particular in-law came from. (Mar_10:9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.)
Love for the "poor man." Love for the "homeless man." Maybe you know and understand his situation and want to do something to help overcome that burden.
Love for the "rich man." The media mocks him and makes fun of every little statement he makes. That doesn't mean he is bad for being "rich," it is that everything is "observed" by the media. (Jesus was rich, had ancestry and relatives, and became poor.....so we could be rich)
Love for the elderly. Maybe they are ignored, but you know that their wisdom and input in this life still matters.
Love for the "prodigal son." Yes, there are prodigals among us. We love them and wish they would learn to love God more.
Love for a person that died from the community. Maybe you didn't sense it before, but then you get dreams or visions about them.
One of the harder ones to admit is love for the "wicked man." The man that curses you, scorns you, false accuses you etc etc. Maybe he is part of a really wicked group or religious practice. Even there God's love can overcome this tendency. (ie. Kim Kardashian is kinda strange from time to time but a lot of her distant relatives may have to put-up with people that are full-of-it)
Brotherly love. Sisterly love. This love exists in close connection churches and similar faith relationships. Maybe you love sister sue while you are still married to your spouse. Maybe you love brother bob while you are still married to your spouse. If they suffer, you suffer with them. You care about them and their conditions. Maybe you suffered in the same way as them. A similar faith love feeling would be more likely between similar groups (messianic would share more love between those of similar faith like an adventist, than a Catholic would share a kind of love for a Muslim, an orthodox Jewish may share a type of love for an indigenous tribe that suffers because of nationalistic pressure). Some faith groups have full-knowledge and Love for God and some do not, so beware of that (enemies kiss each other).
-In general terms and sometimes practice a "holy kiss" is sometimes shared among those of similar faith beliefs.
Open-Relationships- There is a "biblical way" to look at "open relationships" and there is a secular way to look at "open relationships." The general rule is this: if you are not "married" to someone, temptations may come, but you do not have to give-in to those temptations. Furthermore, "skin-to-skin" if it is not done in an honest way is LUST and that LUST power brews into "sin-to-sin." Unfortunately some people may turn to "open relationships" because they are not getting "enough love" from their current marriage. The SCRIPTURE teaches how to overcome these issues in the HEART and what it wants.
Sometimes a marriage doesn't produce "ultimate" love because one spouse doesn't believe in the same way or understand in the same way. But GOD's love exists for all man-kind and shows up for different people in different ways.
Some marriages are not GODLY marriages. If that is the case a follower of JESUS/YESHUA does not have to practice or participate in ceremony for those marriages.
The most important love we can have is love for JESUS (Yeshua in Hebrew). His love never fails! Jesus forgave us, and if someone hurt you in the past, you can forgive them too!
Being an "Instagram model" will never produce Godly love. It doesn't work. The conditions of what happens in the "womb" prove this truth. If people have "issues" with temptations and imaginations.....take it to the CROSS:
Also there are ways that "Seem right" to a man but the end-thereof-is-death. Mayim does a good job at explaining these things and how to overcome them. The only "thing" I don't agree with is that she describes Patriarchy as the "bad guy" when in reality it is NOT the "bad guy," Misogyny is the bad-guy. I don't believe it is "patriarchy" that is the problem (this is a feminism error). Because there are VERY GOOD godly "single fathers" out there. Some very good men have been ripped away from their children because of excessive feminism. One very good indicator of "misogyny" is if that son (or even daughter) does not respect the disabled people in the society. They think that the disabled person deserves to be "punished" in or out of a marriage. Love can exist outside of a "marriage" but it would always be godly sort of love. I do agree that "racism" can raise the amount of misogyny and people don't realize it......and this can stem from excessive feminism.
A way to keep-up with the conditions of the flesh..... in a modest way....and encouraging way....
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