Love is not...

If you love only those who love you, what good is that? Even scoundrels do that much. If you are friendly only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even the heathen do that.

- Matthew 5:46-47

Love is not just feeding the hungry.

Love is feeding the hungry weeks after their kind made an organized attack on your community school, killing many innocent children and maiming others.

Love is not just caring for the weak.

Love is caring for the injured who just bombed your town square and made a waste of your community. 

That is the dramatic revolutionary love Jesus demonstrated, that has made Him a force to reckon with, thousands of years after He left this planet. And that is the love He calls His followers to demonstrate.

This is why I question the familiarity of spiritual leaders who exhort others to defend and revenge, with the God they claim to serve. That is the same God that stretched out a hand of reconciliation to those who murdered His Son?

But this is a Valentine's Day post, so let’s keep it light. Hoping this makes someone think.

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone.