TWLOHA

So today is TWLOHA (To Write Love On Her Arms) day, and pretty much everyone I saw had LOVE emblazoned on their arms. It's a cool idea...I wrote LOVE on my arm, too. However, it got me thinking. It seems like we [as humans] frequently think that we can "fix" things with LOVE. A lot of popular music and movies have LOVE as a main theme, and I'm all for a little LOVE in the world! This post is making me sound like I don't approve of LOVE, but I do. But the thing is, this LOVE we try to spread around by ourselves is our own minuscule version of LOVE. It's an emotion that we try to project towards others, but true LOVE is only from Jesus. We can't fix the world with our human version of LOVE. Sure, things may seem a little better and run a little smoother, but the only lasting change as a result of LOVE comes from Jesus Christ and no one else. I was reading 1 John 4:7-21...check it out.


Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us. And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. All who confess that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. We love each other because he loved us first. If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their Christian brothers and sisters. 

(By the way, I feel like I should say that I added the bold-ness to the LOVE in the passage. It's not that way in the actual text, but I thought it was pretty interesting to read it with the LOVE emphasized.)

So yeuup.

my thoughts, if you cared to know. and if you didn't, well...now you know them anyway!

Em