Good Saturday morning! Outside is winter once more... cold, snow, gray sky; winter. This morning I want to write about love. Not the 'love' we see in the movies and television kind of love. The 'love' we see in commercials is no good either..."You'll LOVE McManny's new fourteen-pounder! More calories than you can count with a computer!" Sorry about that... probably shouldn't think about food so early in the day. :-) I fasted for lunch yesterday, not by choice but by accident. Sometimes when we seek to understand another person's pain, we ask them how their tooth is doing this week, as I did with Burt on Thursday night. The Lord is not without His humor in these things and to borrow a King James phrase, lo and behold, I broke a tooth on a bit of spare concrete in my Special K Friday morning. If you'll pardon the pun, I was given a taste of what Burt was feeling. We love the Lord, but we don't love pain.
So what do we seek when looking for the love of Jesus in our lives? First of all, the Christ-like and Christ centered love we seek is a choice, not an urge or a feeling. When we choose to believe in Jesus, we also choose to love Jesus. This love is a choice because some of the things our Lord tells us will not be pleasant to hear. Example: the Lord says that we shalt not commit adultery; the urging of the flesh immediately says 'rebel'. However, we do not commit adultery because we love the Lord and want to please Him. The lust of the flesh fights against the love of the Lord, and we have a choice. This is where Jesus sets us free; we can choose to hold tight to that love and not sin, or we can choose to sin, but we now have a choice. The love of the Lord has given us a choice. Love, how else to explain the fact that we have a choice? God knows what is best for us in all situations. Yet He does not force us in one direction or another, but allows us to choose. This is not to say there will not be consequences for us when choosing the wrong path!
Have a great weekend and share the love of Jesus today!
Bucky
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