Where's the love?
“Where’s the love?” This is the question that has been on my mind lately. Following current events from south of the border and worldwide keeps having me ask myself “where’s the love”? Many people have declared that they choose love, but then their immediate actions and words speak exactly the opposite of what they declared.
I believe people sincerely wish to choose love but the problem is people have lost knowledge of what love truly is. What is love then?
“This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.” - 1 John 4:10
Friends, God is love, and Jesus Christ is the embodiment of love.
Real love is a self sacrificial kind of love. The kind of love that puts others before oneself.
One particular video really disturbed me this week. In the video a young person was telling a group of people that “Jesus is the answer to all the hate”. The crowd’s reply, “we don’t need your Jesus, (curse) your Jesus.”
My heart sank and wept. How can people claim to truly love if they don’t know or understand truly what love is? If they don’t know the one who is love?
People want to champion a voice for the weak and oppressed but lose sight of what that really means. If you read about the life of Jesus, he constantly gave voice to the weak, oppressed, and lost. He constantly gave of himself to help others and in the end gave his own life so that we can have life, everlasting life.
People are lost when they say they choose love but then turn around and insult people, spit on people, disrespect people, curse people… that is not the way of love.
We as Christians need to reflect Christ’s love properly. In the past we have failed miserably, but let us not look to the past but the future. Let’s love properly. Let's turn our attention from ourselves and on to others.
In the end if someone wants to choose love they must also choose Jesus.
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. - Galatians 5:14-15
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