How’s your relationship with love? Do you see yourself as someone who is open to
experiencing love, or someone who has become closed to love, perhaps because of past pain? Do you see yourself as someone who waits to be loved, or as someone who takes love to others? Jesus knew that love was one of the most important choices that humans would ever have to make, which is why He commanded it, saying, “This is My commandment,that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12). Following in the steps of their Master, the apostles also taught the primacy of love. John writes: “Beloved, let us loveone another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another” (1 John 4:1-11). For those who daily walk and talk with Jesus, love is an active choice.