Love Actually
Love is a verb, an action, not a word. Love motivates us to do the ‘impossible’. Love operates in supernova strength; love can move mountains.
Love requires sacrifice. The value of something is determined by how much someone is willing to give up for it. The worth of a piece of wood is only as valuable as the sacrifice.
Love can be freely given, but is not cheap. The more we pay for it, the more we invest in greater care and protection over it.
Wherever you spend most of your time, thoughts, and energy is where your love is. Sometimes our love for something, someone is ‘unseen,’ and we fool ourselves into determining its worth by what the world sees.
Love is death… to every will in our flesh. Love is crucifying everything else that tries to throne itself in the only place love should be. Love is concerning; it cares… about all the little things, not just the big stuff. Love actually is Jesus, who didn’t care about appearances, or riches, or tomorrow. Love actually is God who cares about even the hairs on your head. Love is His Truth, which testifies to the greatest commandment of all, love for Him. To love God is to know Him, trust Him, desire Him, follow Him, to want nothing more than Him. Love is higher than hope, peace, or joy; it goes beyond the bad times and sees only His good. Love is steadfast, everlasting, ever present… never-ending, never escaping, never withering. Love actually cares for the hearts of God’s people and presses in; it embraces when the circumstance hurts beyond what we can bear. Love is self-sacrificing and walks in complete abandonment to the world, its worries, its demands, its temptations to give up this sacrifice because ‘you can have what you need right now’ (Matthew 4).
My Jesus, you are the Love of my life… may I love how you love. My flesh fails miserably at grasping the fullness of your love, God. May you give me this desire of my heart, that your love radiate a portrait of your steadfast, sacrificing, never-ending love for you and for others. In my weakness to love, may your love prove to be all that I cannot. Amen.
