2 Samuel 13: 1-2 In the course of time, Ammon son of David fell in love with Tarmar, the beautiful sister of Absalom son of David. Ammon became frustrated to the point of illness on account of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her. 14-15 But he refused to listen to her, and since he was stronger than she, he raped her. The Ammon hated her with intense hatred. In fact, he hated her more than he had loved her. Ammon said to her, “Get up and get out!”
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Holy Love
Men are false, only our God is faithful. Men know us by our appearance, but the Lord knows our heart. In verse 1-2, Ammon fell in love with Tamar, it is normal. But from the continued verses we can find that Ammon was only a lustful person, he was only interested in Tamar’s beauty, he just wanted to fulfill his own prurience by having sexual intercourse with Tamar. So he set a trap and raped Tamar. after his lust being fulfilled, he didn’t want to be with responsibility to what he had done. In the beginning, he fell in love with Tamar and hated her more than he had loved her. God is love, His love is absolutely different with the love of human’s. His love is holy, only his love never changes. His love is for the benefit of anyone else who cannot be helpful or useful to him. Of course, we are the creation who has the image of God, we have feelings , one of them is love. But we should get rid of the fleshly love, because it is always ignorable, superficial, selfish and impermanent. We should aspire and try our best to establish a love just like Jesus Christ. We should love other people, even though they are not lovable, they are not beautiful, they have no possibility to benefit us. we love them just becaue it’s God’s order: You should love your neighbors, just like love yourself. And all of us are not lovable before God.We should love people, just because they are the creations who have the image of God. Let our wandering feeliings go back to the Holy love of God. This is the way through which God is pleasure with us.
