Choosing to Love

Everyday, it's choosing to love the people that God loves, that makes the world a bearable place to live in, knowing that there are also people (plenty of them, I'm sure) who go out of their way to choose to love me.

I believe with all my heart that love is not an emotion; because if that were the case, the God who created it is so shallow, so temporary and so irrelevant. But that is not the case.

The God who created love transcends time; He is everlasting. He is pro-forever. I believe that is even why He designed marriages to last until two people united as one have breathed their last- until what the world can grasp of forever expires.

Knowing this, I realize, that loving people is not based on how you feel for them- whether you get along with them fine or not, whether you understand them or not. Because love is a choice. Love is not an emotion. It is not a feeling.

When God ordained for Jesus to die on the cross for our sins, He decided to give up His son so that there would be atonement for sins once and for all. He decided to forsake Jesus, so that He could forgive us. There is no greater example, because God Himself is Love.

You see, even accepting God is a choice. He designed it that way. He gave man free will. We can decide for ourselves.

So when I start to feel like I don't want to care about this person anymore, when I feel like giving up because I just can't take the emotional chaos and all that, I go back to the cross (that's where we should all go home to, you know) and look at Jesus hanging in there. I start to think that God decided, and had it in his heart, to love me. And for that reason, Jesus died, and Jesus rose again.

And after that, I decide to love this person, this unlovable being common to each one of us, care for this person and still try to understand. Because even God cared to save me. Even God cared to do something about my hopelessness. So, who am I to not even try?

Everyday, it's going back to what God did for us, who we became the moment we understood that, and who our God is.

Everyday, it's choosing to love. Even though we don't feel like it.