What's Love Got to Do with It?

• Yes!  You are in.  A lot of hate out there.  How about you?  Do you love or hate more?  Christians, this play of the day will be a big challenge for some of you?  Here you go...
• Thank you Marcus Rogers for that opening hook, Best Life.  Please support, buy, subscribe his music.  I do via Apple.  
• Thank you Pastor Rick Warren for another/countless play of the day.  You can hear more of that listen at Daily Hope, pastorrick.com.  That one was published on the 1st of May 2025, entitled. "You've Got to get Connected, Part 2"
• Alright you.  Are you a lover or a hater?  If you are not a Christian, you are off the hook.  If you claim Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you are obligated to love.  In fact, I loved the simplicity of that Play of the Day.  We are not allowed to hate people.  We may hate their actions/flaws.  Does everyone approve of everything you do or say?  Are you married?  You don't even need to be married to answer that question.  Of course not, you are flawed, Rom 3:23.  So are your most annoying people.  So do you pray for or curse them?  
• You don't have to take my words for it.  Nor even Pastor Rick's.  What about your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ's?
• “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matt. 5:44)
• Your heavenly Father will forgive you if you forgive those who sin against you; but if you refuse to forgive them, he will not forgive you.  Matt 6:14
• Doesn't mean you need to be besties with those that hurt you.  Not at all.  Trust must be earned...and some never will.  It does mean you let God do what he does best, justice.  On this broken planet or after.  You give that hurt to your Heavenly Father.  Say Abba, this is between you and that person that hurt me now.  I'm tired of carrying that hurt around like a ball and chain.  
• My brother-in-law Chad, whom I love very much, is an atheist.  He gets quite wrapped up in politics and likes to point out hypocrisy on just one side.  He does have valid points at times.  He shares something about how a book hasn't killed anybody but we will ban books and not guns.  After thought and prayer, I replied, if we all followed Jesus Christ's words in a book called the Bible, there would be no wars, no racism, no hate and no definitely no mass shootings.  Yet there are many that want to ban that very book (far left and far right depending on what sect).  So what does Love got to do with it?  EVERYTHING
• Matthew 22:36-40
  New International Version
  36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
  
  37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”