LOVE AS AN ACTION

We tend to think of love as a feeling, an emotion. A response to how we feel about someone or an occurrence/situation. However, treating love just as a feeling is selling it short to the gift it truly is. It is not an occurrence of euphoria that wanes from its peak which is what feelings do. No, it is a choice, an action. It is a decision that is made and then it is carried out in action. It is a fully developed choice when we choose do it without condition(s) as strictly your sole (and soul) decision. When someone offends us, we choose love over the offense. When someone irritates us, we choose love and overlook the irritation. When someone is unkind or rude to us, we choose love to trump unkindness and rudeness. When we choose love, we take an action that overrules the emotions we feel when people offend us, irritate us, and/or unkind and rude to us. We divert from our propensity to act on our emotions and instead we make the choice to love, which leads to the action of love to lead our emotions. It is impossible to frown when smiling. Either one can be outwardly seen by others and have the ability to impact others. Choose love (choose to smile) to feed your soul, build your character, and impact others.

“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”

‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13:4-7‬ ‭NLT‬‬ (https://bible.com/bible/116/1co.13.4-7.NLT)