What Is Love?

If you ever spend more than 20 minutes with me, you will discover something about me.  1) I'm very energetic and 2) I like to sing.  If you ask anyone who knows me, they can tell you that if anyone says something that reminds me of a song, I will almost always break out into said song.  So you can imagine, I sing a lot.

When someone asks me "What is love?"  I don't always say the good-little-church-girl answer, "God," and have a shining halo appear over my head while I smile innocently.  Nah brah nah...  Usually I will break out in song.  And my answer to "what is love?" is:

Baby don't hurt me!  Don't hurt me!  No more!

Ahh, yes... I am going to take you back a couple of years to that Super Bowl no one remembers... but everyone remembers the commercials (you say nothing's changed?  Huh, imagine that.  I'm not a football fan by the way. :D)  Yes, I'm talking about the "What Is Love?" Pepsi commercial.  You know the one.  The one where everyone falls asleep and then that girl walks by with a cart of Pepsi and everyone has a sip and they get a twitch.  Oh yeah!  That one!

If you still don't know which one I'm talking about, here yah go:

But love is so much more than a bottle of Pepsi, I'm sorry to say.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 says that "Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

I go to a Bible study on Thursday mornings before school (aka at the crack of dawn, if not before) and this past week, our leader asked us how we wanted to be remembered once we were gone from this world.  I said that I wanted people to remember me as loving and joyful.  When I read the verse I said above, I always replace "love" with my name and see if it's still true.  Try it for your name.  Is it true?  Now replace "love" with God.  Oh yeah, it's true.

The celebrities in the video for the What Is Love commercial kept saying that the sip of Pepsi MAX gave them the energy to go on.  When I think about it that way, and replace their love for Pepsi MAX with God's love for me, I get all excited, too.  God's love energizes me to go through life as a Christ-like example to the world.

The more I focus on how much God loves me and how much He loves everyone else, I can be filled with that love and show it to others.  To do that, I need to embody the ways that God is love.  Patience, kindness, etc.  It's hard to do, and I understand that I will never ever ever ever be able to love as much as God does.  It's just not humanly possible.  Parents with children may disagree with me, but a love for a child is just a fraction of the love that God has for us.  And He wants everyone to know about that love.  And we're the ones to share it.

How are you showing God's love to the world?

<3 Warrior