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Love Is A Choice

The greatest things in life can’t be earned.

They are given.

We are given family, and we don’t have to work for them or earn them.

You popped out of your mama and had a family. BAM

We are given babies, and outside of what is a couple minutes… well, a couple minutes’-long visit to mama and daddy from the stork, a baby will soon be given.

A baby grows and is born as a gift.

We didn’t do any designing and hard work to grow that baby for nine months!

Daddy may be handy with autoCad, but that baby wasn’t engineered by him

Love.

Love can’t be earned. We work so stinkin’ hard, but there’s no love until love is given.

Someone has to choose to give love as a gift.

No matter our effort and work.

We don’t make people love us.

Could it be true that love is a gift we give? Could it be true love is a choice?

We don’t fall in and out of love like it’s a deep hole

It’s like a 400 foot well when we fall in love

It’s like a pothole when we fall out of love

No- love is a choice. What really happens is we change our minds and backtrack on our decisions.

That’s how God loves us. It is a gift. And here’s the Bible’s definition of love: God. (1 John)

It’s how we love one another. We made the choice. We venture into the commitment.

Here’s a mark of true love: it is a vow. It is a promise.

It’s more than a choice. It’s stronger.

The Gospel- oh, the love of God for us!

His love is a vow that is tested and proven true! His love is like a covenant of old!

Unbreakable.

Look how Jesus loved His bride

He gave Himself for her. He didn’t hold back. He gave self-sacrificially. Self-forgetfulness like we’ve never seen before.

He gave Himself to galvanize and guarantee the promise of John 3:16

Marriage is meant to be a mirror of Jesus’ love for His bride.

His love for those who confess His Name and believe He is Lord. He is Faithful and True to His bride

Look into that beautiful picture. Gaze into that image.

Now, you give your vows to your soon-to-be husband/wife

A vow to love. A vow to cherish. Til’ death do you part!

Reflect God’s love through the Gospel in the way you love one another

Will you be perfect? Psh.. I mean, Elle tells me nearly every day I have it down pretty well.

No. But with God, and Christ’s love in each of you and at the foundation of your marriage, there’ll be something special. Something beautiful. Something that can’t be stolen and can’t fade away.