Love and fear

 

Love and fear

 

It has been said the two strongest emotions in the human genome is love and fear. I have heard it said that a person commits to a certain course of action, behavior out of one of these two emotions. They do something because they love it or do something out of fear.

Fear – alarm and agitation caused by expectation or realization of danger (this coincides with our very basic need to survive – not die). A state of dread or apprehension. To be frightened. To suspect. To be in awe of, revere.

 

Afraid – fearful, frightened. Reluctant, hesitant. Regretful.

 

Apprehension – fearful or uneasy about the future, anxious.

 

Scared – to startle, frighten. A state of alarm or panic.

 

Petrified – to immobilize as with terror.

 

Frightened – to fill with fear. To force or drive by arousing fear.

 

Panic – a sudden overwhelming fear.

 

Startle – to fill with sudden surprise.

 

To cause to make a start, as of surprise.

 

Terrify – to fill with fear. Terrorize – to fill with great fear, to terrify. To control or dominate by violence or intimidation.

 

Intimidation – to make fearful or frighten. To discourage, coerce, or surpass by as if by threatening.

 

Dominate – to influence, control or rule by superior power or authority. To occupy the most prominent position in or over.

 

 

 

 

Love and fear

 

It has been said the two strongest emotions in the human genome is love and fear. I have heard it said that a person commits to a certain course of action, behavior out of one of these two emotions. They do something because they love it or do something out of fear.

Fear – alarm and agitation caused by expectation or realization of danger (this coincides with our very basic need to survive – not die). A state of dread or apprehension. To be frightened. To suspect. To be in awe of, revere.

 

Afraid – fearful, frightened. Reluctant, hesitant. Regretful.

 

Apprehension – fearful or uneasy about the future, anxious.

 

Scared – to startle, frighten. A state of alarm or panic.

 

Petrified – to immobilize as with terror.

 

Frightened – to fill with fear. To force or drive by arousing fear.

 

Panic – a sudden overwhelming fear.

 

Startle – to fill with sudden surprise.

 

To cause to make a start, as of surprise.

 

Terrify – to fill with fear. Terrorize – to fill with great fear, to terrify. To control or dominate by violence or intimidation.

 

Intimidation – to make fearful or frighten. To discourage, coerce, or surpass by as if by threatening.

 

Dominate – to influence, control or rule by superior power or authority. To occupy the most prominent position in or over.

 

In writing this, I was struck to look up the verse in the bible relating to marriage. Mark 10:6-9 – But at the beginning God made them male and female. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let men not separate.

 

United – to bring or put together so as to make a whole. To join together for a common purpose. To become consolidated.

 

One – being a single unit or entity. Characterized by unity. Single in kind.

 

Two – something with two parts, units or members.

 

When two people are married, they become one flesh, the two shall become one and make whole, figuratively and literally. They join together for a common purpose. They are no longer two. Matthew 25:40, 45 – I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me. I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these; you did not do for me.

 

You see the Lord has told us in the new covenant.

 

Hebrews 8:10 – This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them in their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor or a man his brother saying “know the Lord,” because they will all know me from the least of them to the greatest.

 

You see each of us have the Lords laws written in our heart and in our minds, we know what is right or wrong, he has given us free will to choose to listen and obey or to not listen and disobey. When two become one, united with a common purpose, they then become equal partners, neither above the other.

 

Equal – of the same measure, quantity or value as another. Possessing the same privileges or rights. Having the necessary strength or ability. One equal to another.

 

In marriage one is not greater than the other, more important, superior, dominant, honored, revered, praised, listened to, respected, and feared. The two become one, equal partners brought together for a common purpose.