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| Written by Linda Prusha |
| Monday, 26 January 2009 10:33 |
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It’s February, the LUV month. Everywhere you look there are hearts and cupids. Love is in the air. What is love really? Many believe love is an emotion. If you don’t feel all warm and fuzzy then you must not love that particular person. I believe, that, yet there is emotion involved in love, but real love is a choice. We can choose to give love or withhold it. We can choose to love someone who annoys us or chooses to hate them. It isn’t something that just happens. We can choose. Jesus was asked what is the greatest commandment and He replied,” ’...you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:30-31. He didn’t say go and have dinner and chocolates and see fireworks. He said love GOD first and then love, others as you love yourself. Many of you have seen the JOY symbol which means love Jesus, others, yourself. I believe this may be spelled wrong. We need to love GOD first and then love ourselves. Not in a vain, arrogant way, but with a love that knows we are a child of God and we are special to HIM. When we are self-centered, only focusing on our needs and worries, it is very hard to give to and love others. We become critical , jealous, and rude. When we truly love ourselves suddenly we are able to give abundantly to others. When those others receive our love they, in turn, feel love and give to others and...so on and so on and so on. The world is changed. Amazing! It is said: GOD IS LOVE—not, God has love or God seems like love, or God had loved, but GOD IS LOVE. In the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, often called the “love chapter”, the apostle Paul writes (in verses 4-8). “Love is patient; love is kind; love not envious or boastful or resentful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” WOW! Love is amazing!! Can you do or not do all things listed? I don’t think I can. But...God can, and he does. His love is unconditional, meaning no strings attached—because we are His. If we love Him in return what awesome, powerful things we would be able to do because of the love we now have for ourselves and others. So, this day, choose. Choose love, real love, God’s love. |