30-11-08 (Saturday) "Love"

"he asked Him, 'Of all the COMMANDMENTS, which is the most important?'
'The most important one,' answered Jesus,'is this:"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 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:"Love your neighbor as yourself." There is no COMMANDMENT greater than these.' "

~ Mark 12:28b-30 (NIV)

Its a COMMANDMENT.

com⋅mand⋅ment

–noun

1.	a command or mandate.

2.	(sometimes initial capital letter) any of the Ten Commandments.

3.	the act or power of commanding.

in other words... we're supposed to obey by DOING what it commands. So... What I get is this...

Love is more than just that warm, cuzzly wuzzy feeling you get when you think you're in love with this person and you wanna spend all your time and the rest of your life with the person (and then wonder why you actually thought so when you eventually HAVE to spend your whole life with that person... Heheh. Jk.)

Love is an ACTION.

Draped in "sin" and veiled with "ugliness", we are still loved as a CHOICE of God. He made an ACTIVE decision to love us. And when Jesus commanded us to love others, its not about making yourself feeling all warm and wonderful and joyful when around that person...

It means you help pick the person's stuff up even though you just got a scolding from your parents on the way to school.

It means you go up to the person to chat with a person and ask about his/her problems despite your bad sleep last night.

It means you put effort into being interested in the person's life and what he/she thinks.

If love were as easy as the movies put it, divorce rates would not have been as high as one in three marriages in the US. Broken families would be an unfamiliarity and even an anomaly everywhere.

If love were so easy, then it wouldn't need to be included in the greatest COMMANDMENTs.

In fact, the hardest part of love is when you have to love your neighbors AS YOURSELF. I'm sure you know hard it is to do that, I mean... Would you be willing to help a person put on make-up for half as long as yourself? Or in a guy's case, style the person's hair for as long? Going out of your own way for the sake of others?

Have you shown your love to anyone today?

"Don't save it all for Christmas Day
Find a way
To give a little love everyday
Don't save it all for Christmas Day
Find your way
Cause holidays have come and gone
But love lives on
If you give on
Love..."

~ "Don't Save It All For Christmas Day"
Celine Dion, Clay Aiken, Avalon...