Love Chat #2

1 Corinthians 13.4-7

Popular culture has the wrong idea about love. If you listen to too much pop music you'll start to believe that love is sweeping emotion that overtakes you and leaves you hot blooded. People call that love, but it's really romance or perhaps just lust.

The Bible says that love is an action. It's a behavior. It's a choice. To be a loving person means you do loving things. Love gets it's hands dirty.

1 Corinthians 13. 1-4 is a list of 15 verbs in bullet point form. Verbs are what love is all about.

Here is my version of what love is.... "Love gets up in the middle of the night and feeds the baby. Love doesn’t ask when she has a headache. Love sometimes says yes when you're not in the mood. Love unplugs the toilet. It remembers to pick up milk at the grocery store. It changes diapers. It remembers anniversaries, and birthdays, and Mother’s Day, and Valentines day, and about 15 other days. Love occasionally goes to the chic flick. It occasionally turns off the football game. It wipes noses, cares for a sick child, cares for a elderly parent. Love stops talking and just listens, drives to 700 soccer games; comes home exhausted and still makes conversation; works all day, then prepares a meal for a friend. Love picks up, cleans up, mops up, shines up, and tidies up. Love listens when you don’t make any sense. Love stays connected."

Love is an action. So be a person of loving action!

Related passages: James 2.17, 1 John 3.18, 1 John 4.7-8, John 13.34, Romans 13.8, 1 Peter 1.22.