I beg to differ.

LOVE.

Easy right?  I beg to differ.

The problem is that love really is not an emotion...

although we treat it as such.

Love is an action.

VERB.

You can tell someone you love them.
For a minute they might believe you.

Take you for your word.

Until they get nothing.

After a while words mean nothing if there is no action involved.

I wish I could tell you I understand love.

I don't.

I've experienced it.

I've watched people give it.

I've watched people receive it.

I've watched people walk away from it.

For those who are curious...
I set a few goals late one evening on July 17.

Random date, YES!

But I have not forgotten it.

Some of the people I admire most can tell you the exact date they were saved.

I never could.

I grew up in church.

I have believed in and loved God since I was a kid.

Except it was finally revealed to me that maybe I didn't really love God.

I believed in him...but did I love him?

Because there had never really been any action to get to know him.

Church on Sundays.

A devotion here...an empty prayer there.

In the eyes of the world...I should be good right?

But what about in the eyes of God?

Who knows my heart.

July 17, 2012.

The day I truly started LOVING God.

So where do I go from here?

I think I continue getting to know Him

Yes...that means my alarm clock will continue waking me up at 5 am.

It gives me a solid hour of reading His word.

I LOVE THIS TIME.

Meaning, this is in no way a sacrifice.

Next...
What is God's definition of love?

I wish I could share with you that one day I woke up and it was like an epiphany...

Not hardly.

It was 3 years in the making...