The Opposite of Love

Love is placing another higher than yourself and laying down your rights for that person. The opposite of love is not hate but pride. Pride places the self above all others. Pride causes us to seek our own good and pleasure above others' good and pleasure. You don't have to hate someone to not love them. You do not love someone if you love yourself more.

"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13

This is what Christ has done for us. He loved us more than His own life. Christ is the ultimate example of love, and His work on the cross is the chief display of love. May we know and understand the love of Christ, and may His love transform our hearts so that out of love we will,"count others more significant than [ourselves]." Philippians 2:3