waove, towue waove...

what i want to challenge you to do is to love. i've been learning about love this week. what i've learned is that love is NOT a feeling. get that out of your head. love is not an EMOTION. love is a decision. a sacrifice. and with sincere love, feelings usually follow. i'm not just talking about marriage or romantic love, but with everyone. god IS love. and love is God. out of hope and even FAITH, love is the greatest. the entire universe revolves around this unconditional love. everything hangs on this.

God so LOVED the world that he GAVE his only... you know the rest. love is a sacrifice. not just giving because when you give, you usually can get something back. but sacrifice, you don't get anything from that. its a SACRIFICE. God created us in his own image so that we could be like him and love like him. God's kind of love is a covenant love. it expects nothing back. it is completely selfless.

faith works in LOVE.
"love the lord you god with ALL your heart, soul, mind, and strength." if you understand love, you understand God. god is love. god is a GIVER. the entire universe hangs on this principle. God is calling us to love him first and then others with this kind of love. this covenant. 1 john 3:16 says

"we know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. so we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters."

that doesn't mean we are supposed to just die for everyone. it can also be practical. thinking of others first is very simple. and its loving them. isn't it funny that the key to the universe is simply thinking of others first? if you know God, you know love. if you know love, you know god. loving like this is engaging your spirit. at the same time it is DISengaging and destroying the Enemy. if you can get into love, you can get into the spirit.

love is not an emotion. its who God is. its the law of the kingdom. its how everything functions. the entire reason the universe was created was for us to love God and for him to love us back. its the reason he gave us free will. loving people is not about FEELING emotion. the very CHARACTER and NATURE of God is LOVE.

if you mull this over and think about this and accept it, it'll change your perspective on everything. if you understand love, God will CHANGE your heart. my heart has been flipped upside down and turned inside out by this concept. its totally not about me. how silly it was to think it was. the key to EVERYTHING is love. God IS love. forget the emotion "love". that is not real. love is deeper. read 1 cor 13 for heavens sake. those aren't mushy "aw i love you" feelings. although god created those too. but 1 john says if we don't love we don't belong to God. love is crucial. it is pretty much the answer to EVERYTHING.. haha. even if you get nothing in return. its not about you. God will bless you. find TRUE love and you find God. life isn't about boys or petty friendships or clothes or music or movies. all those things are IN life, but life is not ABOUT those things. life is about love. God is in the love business, people.