Fight or Love - It's Your Choice

This is a sermon for the week: "Fight or Love, It's your Choice".

Some people look at everything that happens to them as a fight to be won or lost:

• a job
• a mate
• shopping
• raising kids
• driving
• eating
• dieting
• socializing

Some groups (organizations) also look at their functions in the same way:

• government
• community groups
• churches
• condo associations
• families  

My husband remarked yesterday that we can live in a war-like state, where everything is win or lose and we need to take arms against the opponent, even spiritual warfare. Or we can choose to practice love and forgiveness and let the power of love neutralize the fighting and  prevail.

How do you live your life, fighting or loving? One way to tell is to check your blood pressure, no joke. If you have high blood pressure, you are not only eating the wrong foods, but you are fighting your way through your life. If you have low blood pressure, you may be loving your way through your life, which is healthier and ultimately wins the day.

It's ironic and one of the paradoxes of how God works, that when you lay down your arms, you win the war. When you choose to practice love and forgiveness, you win.

How is it with you today? If you want to switch sides, just choose to lay down your weapons and begin to practice love, even if you don't feel like it.

Act like a loving, forgiving person and you will become one. You can take that one to the bank.