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Passing the Love Test
Passing the love test slide 1
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1. What’s the motivation of Love?
A. We love because we are loved.
B. We love because we are commanded to love.
C. We love because we are filled with love.
Illustration: If you can’t love me when I am at my worst you don’t deserve me when I am at my best.
2. What’s the method of Love?
A. We love in deed and truth.
B. We love by giving.
3. What’s the mark of Love?
A. We love God.
We love our neighbor.
Loophole: Who is my neighbor?
B. We love the brethren.
4. What’s the measure of Love?
4. What’s the measure of Love?
A. We love by dying (to ourselves).
B. We love by choosing to love.
Psychology has indoctrinated our generation to think that self-expression is the highest good.
If you don’t feel it, it isn’t authentic, and thus not real.
This, combined with the definition that love is almost exclusively a warm feeling found deep within us, makes the notion that one should act loving despite not feeling it to be oppressive and a contaminate of love.
The main problem with a “wait until you feel it” love is that it comes more from Hollywood than the Bible.
It fundamentally undermines the two greatest commandments Jesus gave.
The command to love God with everything, and others as ourselves, often assaults this kind of love, oppresses our natural cravings, and inconveniences our self-actualization:
Love your neighbor as yourself regardless if they have wronged you.
Love your neighbor as yourself no matter how unpopular they are.
Love your neighbor as yourself notwithstanding the fact that they embody every pet peeve that you didn’t even realize you had until you met them.
Or, more importantly:
Love God with everything no matter how busy you are.
Love God with everything no matter how angry with him you may be.
Love God with everything no matter how sick, tired, or confused you are.
No footnotes, asterisks, or qualifications nuance these two commands.
“Not feeling it” is the problem to overcome, not an excuse to disobey.
Emotion follows Motion!
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