http://www.garymo.com/2010/02/whats-your-definition-of-love/ Ramblings at the Intersection of Faith, Church, and Everyday Life Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:55:45 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.garymo.com/2010/02/whats-your-definition-of-love/comment-page-1/#comment-1514 James Runcorn Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:39:20 +0000 http://www.garymo.com/?p=819#comment-1514 Absolutely! Love is a choice. People claim to fall in and out of love as quickly as they change their clothes from one day to the next. You see the nice new shirt on sale at Banana Republic, you know it will feel great and make you look great, so you buy it. You put it on the next morning and you feel like a new man. You strut around, proud of just how amazing you look in your new threads. Then lunchtime rolls around. You spill your coffee on your new shirt. It's soiled just like the rest of your wardrobe now. You go home at the end of the day, take your shirt off and throw it into the pile of soiled clothing. The next time you are in the mall, you fall in love again with another one. That's how many people treat relationships. They think love is that feeling. The one that validates ME. The one that makes ME feel good. Then, when the newness wears off, or the first stain manifests itself, it means we have fallen out of love. When will people learn that love is a CHOICE. It doesn't always feel good. Jesus LOVED the world so much, that he left his throne in heaven so that he could become mortal and DIE on our behalf! I'm sure that didn't FEEL good at all...but it's the absolute GREATEST love story in all of human/heavenly history. Absolutely! Love is a choice. People claim to fall in and out of love as quickly as they change their clothes from one day to the next. You see the nice new shirt on sale at Banana Republic, you know it will feel great and make you look great, so you buy it. You put it on the next morning and you feel like a new man. You strut around, proud of just how amazing you look in your new threads. Then lunchtime rolls around. You spill your coffee on your new shirt. It’s soiled just like the rest of your wardrobe now. You go home at the end of the day, take your shirt off and throw it into the pile of soiled clothing. The next time you are in the mall, you fall in love again with another one. That’s how many people treat relationships. They think love is that feeling. The one that validates ME. The one that makes ME feel good. Then, when the newness wears off, or the first stain manifests itself, it means we have fallen out of love. When will people learn that love is a CHOICE. It doesn’t always feel good. Jesus LOVED the world so much, that he left his throne in heaven so that he could become mortal and DIE on our behalf! I’m sure that didn’t FEEL good at all…but it’s the absolute GREATEST love story in all of human/heavenly history.

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