Our society is obsessed with falling in love.
Just watch any romantic comedy or listen to most love songs, the focus on love these days leans heavily toward falling in love. This isn’t surprising though is it? I mean what’s the prerequisite for falling in love?
A pulse. That’s about it.
Truth be known while we’re all naturally equipped to fall in love, most of us are ill equipped to stay in love.
I once heard Andy Stanley say, “The foundation for staying in love is to make love a verb.”
Jesus himself said, John 13: 34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
This is cool. Do you see what he did? He takes a word we use as a noun and he makes it a verb. He’s essentially saying love isn’t something you find but something you do.
See we think we want to feel our way into an action. If I feel in love then I’ll be loving.
Jesus taught that actually it’s the opposite. You don’t feel your way into an action. You act your way into a feeling. Act loving, be loving, then you’ll feel love.
And that my friends is how I think you not only fall in love, but stay in love.
[from Without Wax
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