For example, when a man and woman fall in love it is often because of certain affections – a particular location, experience, personality, interest – that begin to wrap around the couple so to make love an expected and familiar part of their shared lives. “It lives with humble, un-dress, private things soft slippers, old clothes, old jokes, the thump of a sleepy dog’s tail on the kitchen floor, the sound of a sewing-machine…” Affection can sit alongside other loves and often does. “Affection almost slinks or seeps through our lives,” he says. It relies on the expected and the familiar. Like animals, the care of mother to babe is a picture of affection. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.”Īffection covers an array of loves. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. I Corinthians 13:1-3 says, “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. So let’s look at the four types of love found in the Bible, and that Lewis helps to draw out in The Four Loves, published in 1960, and based on a radio series he did with the BBC a few years prior to the book’s release. As we know, Scripture tells us that love is the highest attribute. We may not consciously distinguish one use of love from another, in part because our speech is becoming more and more informal, but it’s important to be intentional about the differences. We love everything from various foods to cars, from movies to retailers, from people to God himself. Today, love is overused and undervalued at the same time.
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