Two Love Stories

I came home last night from youth group and Steph was watching the end of Amazing Race. I still think it would be a fun show to be a part of. My dad and I or Tobin and I could do ok at it. So I saw the elimination part of the show. A husband wife team was being eliminated and you could tell the husband really didn't want to be eliminated. He was crying. Apparently the wife made a bad mistake that led to their elimination. His reaction was awesome. “I couldn’t imagine running the race with anyone but Linda. If anybody in this world has got my back, it’s her. When you get down to the root of it, we’re deeply in love.” She said, “The thing I love about Steve is how much he loves me. I’m really fortunate to have somebody like that. That doesn’t come along every day.” I was very impressed. Today I saw a link to this story and the again I was impressed. Check this out. It's good to hear these stories.

More love

So I've been continuing my study on love. You already know I was looking at God's love and I John says it great when it says "God is love". So anyways I think God loves loving. More even than I can understand. Ephesians 3:18. I love football. I love food. Because I love those things so much I'm always trying to convince people that I love to enjoy those things with me. I want them to enjoy those things as much as I do. I think because of God's love for love and for us he wants us to be able to love as well. God knows that if we try it we will enjoy it. So one of the things it's talking about in Genesis when it says we're made in his image is the ability to love. I firmly believe that love involves a choice. We have to choose to love something. We also have to have the choice not to love it. People can choose not to love football. Many people choose not to like bratwurst. I choose to love my wife. If I was forced to love my wife then it wouldn't really be love. I think God wants us to really enjoy love and so he gives us the choice. He knows that if we choose love we will enjoy it all the more. So when he gave us the ability to choose to sin, he did it out of his love for us. He knew that it is so much better for us to choose love instead of sin. But for it to really be love we had to choose it over something else.

Love

Hey I'm working on some lessons again. So here's some of my thoughts. I John 4:8 says "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love". I hate when the Bible uses words like "does not know God". I want to know God. So I need to make sure I don't fall into that category. So I think this is a serious question. Do I love? I've started studying love to find out if I do it. In order to understand love I'm looking at the perfect example of love. Since it says that God is love I need to study him and his love. I want to learn more about how to love him as well. So the first place I landed was Romans 5:8. "God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." I started thinking about why God made us in the first place. I'd always said it was so we'd love him. The Westminster Catechism says it is to bring God glory. I think maybe it's different than that. I think maybe it's because God is so full of love that he wanted an outlet. Beings that are full of love never run out of things to love. God wanted something to pour out his love on. So he created us. He always knew that he would. He always knew that we'd break his heart. But he created us to love anyways. And he loved in such a selfless way that he died for us. "This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins". I John 4:10 Crud. The more I study love the more selfless it looks. I don't do many selfless things. I show love a lot of the time to get love back. Which I guess isn't really love from me at all.

The Super Bowl

I love a good game. That was a ton of fun to watch. I am disappointed that they didn't review the fumble at the end of the game. I think if you have review then you have to use it at such a crucial spot. I think the review ref dropped the ball on that one. We had about 70 people watch the game with us. Well they started watching the game. A good chunk of them ended up in the gym messing around before the game was over. There was a bunch of food. The sad thing is now we have to wait until fall for football again.