If you go to Google and type in the phrase "is a two way street" you see words in bold like love, respect, friendship, trust, forgiveness, marriage." A relationship that is a one-way street won't last long. I guess a one-way love relationship is possible. It's just not profitable.
"7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." - 1 John 4:7-8
I that right? Is God love? Does that mean that an atheist cannot love? Well, I guess that depends on the atheist's definition of love. But, based on the scripture we just read they cannot really KNOW what love is. They're only guessing?
I think Jesus is God's example of love. Look at His life. A servant, He sacrificed everything for the ones He loved. Do we do that in our relationships? He loved unconditionally. Do we do that? Or are our relationships dependent on being loved in return.
In many cases the love God has for us is one-way. We don't love Him back, although He loves us. Therefore should our love be one way? Yes!
Two way love relationships work because we get what we give. Everyone loves to feel loved. But the relationships that work best are the ones filled with unconditional love - a love like God's for us. When we start putting conditions on our love for God we diminish that love.
We must look at our relationships. Are they one way? Are they unconditional? Can we truly love, in God's definition of love, without knowing God and His love for us?
The theory I have is a modification of the two-way street theory. What if there was a U-turn at the end of the two way streets so they feed each other in a perpetual, eternal way like a big, flat oval? The love would never end. Are your relationships like that?
He Reigns - Newsboys
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