Amor de telenovela.... Soap opera love

What do we call love? feelings? Emotions??? those butterflies in the stomach? ... passion???

It's pretty easy to get confused with what love is.... mainly for the wrong idea we get from TV... movies... magazines... etc... But ... we forget that ... love is a decision... an action.... Jesus said "Love your enemies" ... and... we think that is impossible to do! why?? for our wrong perception of what love is... we think it's about feeling just good! ... if love was like that... it would be about ourselves... it would be a selfish thing... When we go to the Bible... and to Jesus... the right source of Love... we then can apply it... we can really understand what "loving" is about.... and even without "feeling like it" we would be able to love those who have hurt us... those who are different from us... We would be able to love our husbands and wives the "right" way... our children... our neighbor... our enemies....

It's so sad to see all the wrong things that are done "in the name of Love" .... for the "cheap" lie that we believe from the devil.... and the consequences for not knowing what love is ... are terrible... lack of forgiveness, bitterness, adultery, fornication, division (even in the churches), etc... etc... etc...

I am a very expressive person... and I am usually telling my mom "I love u ... I love u!".... and haha... I remember... that some of those times she would say.... "Then wash the dishes!" hahaha.... but it's true... I don't feel like "washing the dishes" but... that would be LOVE... DOING SOMETHING GOOD FOR HER.... praying for others, doing something for others... giving ourselves to others.... Through time, effort, etc. ... God has shown HIS perfect love... through GIVING... He gave HIMSELF for us... who... didn't deserve it... who ... sometimes even reject that love....

My question is... am I loving??? Are you loving???? or are we just saying we love??? are we "waiting" until "we feel" those butterflies to love someone??? until we feel like floating over clouds??? well.... then we are not really willing to love.... let's love now... when it matters!... when it's hard... when it might be even painful... it's not an option... If we really consider ourselves followers of Jesus.... then... we have to do as He has done.... so... let's go wash the dishes!

"But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked." Luke 6:35