Love is a verb!

How many times have police officers gone to a home for a domestic violence call and been told, “I don’t love him anymore, I want a divorce.” How many fellow officers do you know who have said the same thing about their spouse? We approach love as if it is emotion that we cannot control. If love is uncontrollable, unpredictable, and based upon our emotional whims we are in serious trouble when we are instructed by God to love others. So what is love? Is it an emotion or an action? This is what we will explore in this posting.

Loving those you arrest.

At the end of the last post I challenged you to view everyone you contact on the street through the eyes of Jesus Christ and consider, “Can I love them?” In nearly every station house in the country one could walk through and hear police officers talking about the people they arrested. Generally, the terms they use for their arrestees are not nice. Consider the following descriptions: collar, dirt bag, scumbag, lowest of low, long hair, pervert, sex offender, “those people”, “it’s us verses THEM”, meth head, tweeker, doper, smoker, gang banger, banger, pot head, and many other descriptions that would be in bad taste to even post. What about you? Examine yourself. (2 Cor 13:5)