Love is more than a feeling!

Love is more than a feeling. That is a cliche remark that we must have heard much and yet how less do we think of the consequence of such a statement. We have the perfect example in the life of Jesus who demonstrated that love supremely on the cross. However, we still find some kind of solace in singing love songs to Jesus while we fail to really love Him in return. The remark by Jesus is crystal clear - 'if you love Me, keep My commands'. And then we search hard to find out His commands, not knowing that there is one staring at our face all the time, i.e. to love the brethren. Well, we do love our brethren especially the ones who we love to love. But then, there are those who rub us the wrong way and then there are those whom we rather avoid, just to be on the safe side. We just don't have that love feeling for them. We think that by loving God, we will be able to love the brethren. But actually by loving the brethren, we are showing that we love God. We keep waiting on God to love the brethren and we find out sooner or later that God is waiting for us to take the plunge and do it anyhow...