Pursue love…
1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV

Love–the love God calls us to is not natural. It doesn’t come easily. It is not passive. It is not stagnant. It is living, breathing, and in a perpetual state of motion. And we must pursue it. We must chase after it and never stop chasing it. Even if we think we’ve caught it. For the moment we think we have overtaken love–that we have somehow conquered it–if we back off from our pursuit–if we stop doing and saying the very things we did and said before we thought we caught it–we will lose it.

Let’s not get comfortable today. Let’s not sit back and think love is a destination. Love is journey. It’s a choice. It’s a moment by moment decision to be patient and kind, to not envy or boast, to not be arrogant or rude, to not insist on our own way, to not be irritable or resentful, to not rejoice in evil but rejoice in the truth. When we choose to pursue love, we are choosing to bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things.

And when we screw up (for none of us is perfect; we will all say and do things contradictory to love), we must not stop pursuing. We must get up, dust ourselves off, and continue forward. Because I will say it again: love is not passive. It’s active. It’s alive. And it never ends.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV