Heyyy you!
I’m pretty sure you clicked on today’s link way faster 😂 cos why not? We are talking more about love today💃. But before we get right into it, I have a little caveat for you. On today’s blog, you may find out that a table or two of yours which you’ve kept rather dearly will be broken or slightly shaken but don’t worry we’ll be building new and better ones right here! Let’s get this!!!
Looking at the world today, there’s quite a lot of standards set out as to what love should be, and not necessarily what love is. We expect from people so much love, and yet we can’t give them as much love in return. We give little grace to each other and yet when someone extends grace to us we trample right over it. We expect people to handle our excesses, but would we do the same?
To really understand love, you must drop the standards you have set for yourself on what love is cos really you can’t keep up with them. Give yourself some grace and let’s learn from the ultimate lover of all, Christ Jesus!
When I was younger I used to restrict my thinking of love to mean feelings, so in the moments when I got scolded by my parents about something, I definitely didn’t love them as much. But when it was ice- cream or amazing meals time, mannn I was so in love with them. Sounds familiar yeah?
I’ve also seen people who preach so much about self-love. Do what makes you happy. At the end, only you will be there for you. But at a closer look, it becomes clearer that their sermons about self love were actually, clamouring for approval from the rest of the world. Cos really life has never been and will never be about just a person. Christ the savior Himself needed to do life with men.
Like Apostle Paul would say, I thought like a child when I was younger, but as I grew up, in age and in God, I can confidently agree with Pastor Todd and say that love starts where feelings end, and really it does. We don’t always feel good about the people we love, and in fact we are not only to love the people we feel good about. Yes, you may not like everyone, and you’re not meant to put up with the overbearingness of every person, but love is a command and you must keep to it.
What really is love?
Love isn’t feelings. Love doesn’t always look like the easiest route. Love is a choice. Love is a person. Love is God.
As a choice, I love you categorically means I choose you. Remember when God said love your neighbor as yourself? He was referring to that younger sibling that takes 50 selfies when you forget your phone in the living room ( and also the one that perhaps dropped it when you caught him and now you need urgent 10k🙃). I doubt your feelings would be in their nicest at this point, but love as a choice means I see your excesses, but I will still choose to do life with you over again. When we truly understand that love goes beyond feelings, to commitments and sacrifices, then we’ll begin to give so much love and see ourselves transcend into the perfect standards we have for love in our minds.
In choosing love daily, we realize that we don’t have to wait for that perfect someone to come by before we choose to start giving love to people. There are imperfect people all around us that God wants us loving. As we learn, in loving these people, when that perfect someone comes by and one day stops looking as perfect in your eyes, your response would still be love because your feelings have been cultured and you know now that in saying I love you, you also said I choose you and I will be committed to doing life with you forever.
I have a beautiful gift for you today. Watch it>https://youtu.be/hX8t11nwytA. It’s from mama Joyce and she agrees that love is a choice 😊.
God bless you ❤️.
We know now also, that love is God and really it is God who gives grace to love just like He does, yeah? Tomorrow we’ll talk more about that!
Till then, today give grace to men and watch yourself live out love!
Thank you for reading. See you tomorrow ❤️.
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