When We Take Love Seriously

What happens if we follow love to its very end? What happens if we take Jesus words and what the Bible says about love seriously?

Love will take down boundaries of ins and outs.
Love will destroy barriers of us and them.
Love will draw us into new relationships with the “other”
Love will crumble long held theologies and doctrines that divided and separated us.
Love will help us see everyone as a brother or sister.
Love will allow me to forgive those who have hurt me.
Love will draw me to seek forgiveness of those I have hurt.
Love will lead to death of my false self, only to discover my true self.
Love will cause me to be generous and not seek to get mine.

Love will cause me to leave my allegiance to my political affiliation for my allegiance to The King.
Love sees that there is enough for everyone. Love lives in abundance.
Love will seek the benefit of everyone, not just me and those who are like me.
Love will seek justice in the face of power.
Love will open doors to show hospitality and protection for the foreigner, immigrant, and refugee regardless of documentation.
Love does not seek shelter in white privilege or Christian Nationalism, but seeks justice in the face of white privilege and Christian Nationalism.
Love does not celebrate deportations and divided families.
Love protects from bombs, genocide, and manifest destiny.
Love does not see innocent human life as collateral damage to the “greater goal.”
Love will cause me to walk with the poor, oppressed, and foreigner.
Love seeks restorative justice, not retributive justice.

Love co-suffers with the hurting, broken, and wounded.
Love does not seek to win others through fear or threats, because perfect love casts out all fear.
Love is subversive, undermining anything that is contrary to the way of God who is love.
Love will cause me to love, pray, do good, give, and bless my enemies.

Love does not separate, divide, self-protect, or live in fear.

Love will cost me more than I think, but the rewards will be more than I could have imagined.

Love taken to the end is self-giving, radically forgiving, co-suffering love without condition, without end, beyond ethnicity, papers, walls, borders, race, gender, sexuality because Love never fails and perfect love casts out all fear.

The question to consider, “Do I take the words of Jesus and the Bible seriously when it comes to love? or am I living in a false version of love?”