What ABOUT Love?

"Love is patient..."

1 Corinthians 13:4a

 

As this is Valentine's Week, I thought we might take a peek at what Love really is.  Love is a viewed in so many different ways that it can be confusing at times.  I have even been asked if love is real.  And, believe it or not, there are those who use "love" as a weapon.  

 

But let's start with this: LOVE IS PATIENT.  Patient!  That's something we seem to be running low on these days.  Tell you what, go outside and bury a seed.  Any seed will do.  Then stand back and see if it JUMPS out of the ground showering you with dirt clods.  What do you mean "It didn't"?  AHHHH.....it takes patience for the plant to grow (ask any farmer).  You see, love is like that too.  It must have time to grow, but it also must be able to endure.  Love is not a fleeting encounter.  Love is becoming part of someone else.  Joining their life with yours and your life with theirs.  That takes time.  That takes patience.  That takes endurance.

If you cut and run at the first disagreement, it's not love.  Love is when you choose to stand with someone else regardless what comes your way.  Are we willing to do that?  Or do we believe THAT takes too much time, energy and effort?

We tend to throw "Love" around like a hot potato (which I do enjoy hot potatoes with cheese, butter and bacon bits).  But the truth of the matter is LOVE is patiently enduring so it will last!

 

There it is!  Love is not passive.  Love is action.  And, (are you sitting down for this?) actions are always the result of a decision.  Therefore, (and I know this is getting a bit out of the norm), LOVE in its truest form is a DECISION!!