THE ACT OF LOVE

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You cannot fall out of love.  Love is an action, a choice.  We don't fall out of love with our mothers, fathers ,sons, daughters, or even our pets.  Why do we claim to fall out of love with a mate?

We have been misled by television and romance novels.  We have allowed outside influences to convince us that love for a mate is different than choosing to love anyone else in our lives. We have let the world convince us that this is love:


Chemistry, lust, desire, making out, sex, bowchickabowwow...whatever name we put on it, it is not love.  It is simply one way in which two individuals express their love for one another, give one another pleasure, procreate.  But it ain't the sum of the whole and it certainly ain't love.

It is certainly possible to fall out of lust, or lose desire, but neither of those equate with love.  Love is a choice, a verb, an action:

Love never fails.  Isn't that something?  The Creator of Love says that LOVE NEVER FAILS.  If we stop loving, it is either because we never did, or we CHOOSE not to anymore.

We choose not to be patient.  We choose not to be kind.  We choose to envy (others marriages, mates, lives).  We choose to boast (every way in which we are superior to our mate).  We choose to be rude by serving ourself instead of the one we have committed to serve.  In the end, we become easily angered because our record of wrongs is so long it is impossible to forget any of them. 

And then we fail. We fail to be long-suffering. We fail to honor the committment we made before God.  We fail to honor the vows we made at the altar and the one we made them to.  Not because we fell out of some emotion. But because we chose not to do what Love commanded. So WE fail. But thankfully Love never does.

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  1. Wendy GilliattAugust 19, 2015 at 5:34 AM

    The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. ~C.S. Lewis

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