Love...
is...a...choice.
Love goes far beyond
feelings, yet people have made it all about feelings. We went from learning to choose to love, to
finding attraction to someone - love.
When we are attracted to someone for many various reasons we call that
love versus being matched to someone and choosing to love them. People who call attraction love miss the
meaning of love because attraction can fade away, sometimes quickly other times
slowly. When we base our love on
attraction we run into the dilemma of finding a lot of others attractive
because we find the same traits in various people. If you're prone to finding a blonde person
attractive you may see several blonde people attractive to you. If you find
blue eyes attractive the same thing and so on.
It's NOT that we can stop from finding various attributes and traits
attractive, but we can stop calling that love.
We can choose to recognize that love is something MUCH more than the
attractions we feel towards others.
Love is a choice,
truly it is. We make the choice believe in God. We make a choice to care for
one another. We make a choice to forgive others. We make these choices, so many
choices and they are made daily, hourly, minutely and often without our truly paying
attention to the majority of them. Our choices can become habits and sometimes
the choices we make which are bad ones, become bad habits.
Some call being in
love illogical and something of pure fiction.
And you know what, the thing people call love can be that way, it really
can.
Choosing to care for
someone, to join your life to theirs and share in their life's journey is love.
Choosing to do that for someone you're not attracted to in superficial ways is
love as well. That *being* in love aspect does NOT mean you truly love.
Some people are
great at *being* in love, but not great at loving.
God is love. God
chose to create us, chose to love us in caring for us in a way far beyond our
full comprehension.
The way God cares
for us is so much more than the superficial caring we tend to call caring.
God's caring goes to the eternal level and if YOU believe in ETERNITY, then you
understand the reality of the true depths of God's love.
When we live a
single lifetime of say 70 years, that is NOTHING compared to eternity,
absolutely a true drop in the largest of oceans. Yet we tend to measure our life in the here
and now and what we can get out of this life whether it be of love or not of
love. We stop caring about God and others and turn to caring about ourselves
first. We choose to love some but not all, we pick and choose those we are
attracted to and give them the thing we call love while shutting out others
that we aren't attracted to.
Love is so much more
than the twisted warped thing we call love today, so much more.
Gal_5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith
1Jn_4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God
is love.
1Jn_4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but
that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1Jn_4:16 And we have known and believed the love that
God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and
God in him.
Truth, this is
truth.
Please, Father,
please teach us to love as You love, live in us through the Spirit enabling us
to love. To know You and be KNOWN by
You.
Your Will Be DONE.
In the name of our
Savior Jesus Christ our Lord, now and forever!
Amen.
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