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Choosing Love

1 John 4:19 

“We love because He first loved us” 

Whenever I’m in a bad mood... let’s just say I’m not the nicest person to be around. I’m the type of person that can’t hide how I’m feeling. I rarely smile when something is wrong, I probably walk a little different and most likely I have my head dangling down moping. In this state, I’m probably a short fuse: if someone probably looks at me wrong, I may get angry. 

I don’t say all of this to applaud myself, but rather to show what not to do. In this world, it is very easy to not have a good day: whether it’s a person that irritated us, maybe a particular circumstance that you’re in, or maybe it’s even yourself. All of this, regardless of the situation forces us to have a choice: a choice of how we decide to treat people.  

Love is always spoken about from a feeling-based concept, and though you can feel love for someone, very often we miss the times when it is not easy. The reason why the title of this blog, is “choosing love” is because love isn’t always convenient to show: especially when our lives and feelings can get in the way of that.  

From the verse we see that there has been a root of love: someone who has loved us first and that “He” refers to Jesus. Because of the love he has shown to us through salvation, we are called to show that same essence of love onto others. When Jesus was about to give His life on the cross, I can almost guarantee going through physical torment wasn’t convenient, however He made a choice: a choice to choose love.  

Because we a representation of Christ, we are obligated to follow in the example that He has set. Whether it is a smile, an act of kindness, perhaps even just a harmless compliment, because that choice of love may be the only love that person may have ever received.  

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