You can't buy love

By Ken
@kanuck1 (4394)
December 18, 2020 12:05pm CST
One can buy a lot of things but can anyone buy love? It seems that it is impossible to buy love because if one tries to buy love then it ceases to be real love. Love that is bought is not love, it is a fake, a counterfeit, a sham. Love seems to be one of the controversies between Satan and God and the reason why God has to allow suffering and pain and all kinds of hideous monstrous horrible situations. Yes, God is Almighty but he does not want to try to buy love and even though love is so desirable and precious, bought love is of no value and worthless. It seems to me that the book of Job is about Satan accusing God of buying Job's love and proving that some people will love God for what he is and not for what he has or what he can do. God does not want to buy our love. God wants love that is given freely, from our heart.
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@DianneN (246776)
• United States
19 Dec 20
I'm about to give love with my cooking right this minute!!!
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@kanuck1 (4394)
19 Dec 20
@DianneN Providing delicious and nutritious food is a very nice way to show love. I'm sure he appreciates that!
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@kanuck1 (4394)
19 Dec 20
@arunima25 Yes, we also have that saying! Eating good food is a very important part of life.
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@arunima25 (85276)
• Bangalore, India
19 Dec 20
We have a saying that way to men's heart is through their stomach
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@sophie09 (34246)
• Indonesia
19 Dec 20
i couldnt agre more with you, my friend
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@kanuck1 (4394)
19 Dec 20
Thank you, if you think of anything that you can add, please do!
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@kanuck1 (4394)
20 Dec 20
@sophie09 Exactly! The best relationships are when people share in taking and in giving. We all have something that we can share.
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@sophie09 (34246)
• Indonesia
19 Dec 20
@kanuck1 its about give and take
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
4 Apr 21
Who is God? What is Love? Why do we equate "God is Love?" Simply because "God is Love." The Book of Job is a manifestation of God's almightiness. God's omnipotence. All the duration of Job's misery was but a trial of man's capability to endure and overcome any given suffering. But the moral of the story is the realization that puny man cannot question God. How dare man have the audacity to fathom God! God's greatness is beyond all eight billion of man's brains combined.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
9 Apr 21
@kanuck1 Of course. Life is a journey full of trials. Yet, one must never question God of the most extreme and insurmountable trials given him. Man must simply endure. Suffering is joy eternal.
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@kanuck1 (4394)
10 Apr 21
@eileenleyva Those that endure to the end will be saved and so let us keep enduring and let us love God above all things!
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@kanuck1 (4394)
7 Apr 21
I really like what James wrote about Job! James 5:11 (Amplified Bible, Classic Edition) 11 You know how we call those blessed (happy) who were steadfast [who endured]. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the Lord’s [purpose and how He richly blessed him in the] end, inasmuch as the Lord is full of pity and compassion and tenderness and mercy.
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@RebeccasFarm (86755)
• United States
26 Dec 20
In the end, we will all unite in love as one with God.
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@kanuck1 (4394)
26 Dec 20
That's interesting! Are you saying that everyone will somehow miraculously change and love one another?
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@kanuck1 (4394)
26 Dec 20
@RebeccasFarm We'll have to wait and see!
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18 Dec 20
This is a pretty interesting discussion and it's awakening. I agree with you that bought love isn't true, hence God doesn't want to buy our love. Love that that is forced is not love. Perhaps this is also why God gave us freewill.
@kanuck1 (4394)
18 Dec 20
So true! If we didn't have free will how could we love him? Can we really love someone if we have no choice?
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@kanuck1 (4394)
19 Dec 20
@jainaproudmoore Yes, the more we understand what is going on in this world, the more we can endure when faced with difficulties and suffering. The book of Job is very helpful in revealing who is really responsible for all all our problems and suffering and why God is temporarily tolerating the situation but eventually he blessed Job. So, eventually all our suffering will end and we will never have to experience suffering and pain anymore. What a relief that will be!
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19 Dec 20
@kanuck1 Exactly! Loving someone just because we are left with no choice isn't love at all, it's just convenience and comfort. I have always been grateful for the love of God, but reading this thread makes me appreciate think deeper and appreciate it even more.
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@arunima25 (85276)
• Bangalore, India
18 Dec 20
Love is precious and so there is not enough price to pay for it. What you can buy is short lived fake love
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@kanuck1 (4394)
18 Dec 20
Yes, that is also the conclusion I have reached after spending some time thinking about this subject. Thanks for reading!
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@arunima25 (85276)
• Bangalore, India
19 Dec 20
@kanuck1 You have put it well there. Deep thought!!
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@kanuck1 (4394)
19 Dec 20
@arunima25 Thank you! If you have any more thoughts on this subject, feel free to share!
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@innertalks (21024)
• Australia
14 Jan 21
An interesting side question to whether God wants to buy our love might be if he wants to buy anything at all off of us. Was God's sacrificing his son for us about buying our soul, in any way, for example? I agree that love has no price to it, and yet when you set the price yourself, you are shortchanging yourself of love. It is the same with our soul Our soul lives in God, but separating it from God with our own heart and mind so, so imprisoning it away from us, it stagnates and needs to connect to truth again, via the apparatus of life that God has have given to us all, and such a sacrifice of his own son, wholely made from love, showed us all again that love has no price, and even the sacrifice of God's own son was done to try to connect us back again to that same love, but no asking price was required, nor anything asked of us, but to accept him into our own heart, and so replace our own ego-self, and mind, with God's guidance, and will, and love, instead.
@kanuck1 (4394)
15 Jan 21
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
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@dgobucks226 (34356)
23 Jan 21
Very true! One can't buy love only false loyalty and affection. When the money is gone so is that imagined love. Many married couples whose union is based on wealth and material things usually end in divorce. Wealth is just a fancy object dangled to mesmerize someone to like or love you. There is no substance to it. To make a religious reference God was substance. When he performs the miracles he does for us it is out of love. For God loves us. He is not trying to sway us to love him. It is up to us to decide to accept his everlasting kingdom in Heaven.
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@kanuck1 (4394)
23 Jan 21
True! I also like the part where we pray for the kingdom to come and for God's will being done on earth as in heaven. Something good will soon happen to the earth and life on it.
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@kanuck1 (4394)
24 Jan 21
@dgobucks226 Jesus did say that the meek would inherit the earth. I think that, in general, many have misunderstood God's purpose for the earth.
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@dgobucks226 (34356)
23 Jan 21
@kanuck1 Yes, I agree.
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