Love... It's Our Choice...

You can love or you can hate. You can hold grudges or you can forgive. You can be a victim or you can be a victor. You can live in fear or you can live in faith. You can be prideful or you can be humble. You can be right or you can be righteous (God's righteousness).

We - each of us individually - on our own - with no one else to 

blame - is responsible for every choice and decision we make. Sure we can be dictated by our past... the abuse or manipulation we suffered, and all the other stuff that life throws at us... But we do not have to live there. We have the choice to change our futures. It's up to us to make the choice to break the chains.

Way back in the dark ages of the Old Testament, God made a very simple statement "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live" (Deuteronomy 30:19 NKJV)

Give yourself LIFE today by choosing to LOVE. The blessing is in the loving. And real love... It is the greatest gift we have ever been given.

Put biblically -
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled. (1 Corinthians 13 MSG)