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The Choice To Love

                                  

    Love is choosing the act of serving and sacrificing for something. This is emphasized by how we love God. That is by keeping His commands (1 John 5:1-3). We have the freedom given to us by God to love. We choose what we love. We can love the world and the things of the world (1 John 2:15-16). We can choose to love God and the things of God (Matthew 22:34-40). It’s just a choice. It is a decision we make every day about what we will bow down to, serve and sacrifice for. Sometimes it comes with those ooey-gooey warm fuzzies, and sometimes it comes with pain and hurt. To truly love is to choose to love no matter how you may feel or think at the time. Some may argue about this, saying you should feel the strong twitterpated heart palpitations towards God at all times. The thing is that’s not true, you don’t feel that way about the things of the world all the time, yet you serve them and are devoted to them. We can prove this by all the countless motivational and devotional teachings out there. Such instructions are produced to push you to succeed in the world even when you are void of the feelings to do so. Why would your choice to love God be different? It is not. Choose this day who you will serve; who you will love. Is it manna of God? 


"And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”" Joshua 24:15 NKJV


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