Why do people fall in love?\u00a0 What’s their motivation?\u00a0 I mean, why does anybody go through all the trouble of pursuing and building a love relationship.\u00a0 I’m not talking about lust and sex.\u00a0 I’m talking about people who fall head over heels and are willing to put on their best and spend their money and make extra time for dating and gifts and trips –and all the emotional stress and upheaval that comes with the risk of putting your heart on the line hoping for somebody else to respond with the same feelings.\u00a0 Why do people do that?<\/p>\n
The answer is pretty obvious–even if it doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense when you think about how much time and attention a good relationship takes.\u00a0 People give their love because it’s rewarding to share real love with another person.\u00a0 When husbands and wives love each other or parents love their children et cetera, it often requires a lot of sacrifice, but anybody with a good relationship will tell you that it’s more than worth it.<\/p>\n
Living for God is the same thing.\u00a0 Serving God often requires sacrifice and takes work and dedication and commitment.\u00a0 But anybody who has a good relationship with Jesus Christ will tell you that it’s more than worth it.\u00a0 The joy and contentment and deep love that fills your life as a result of belonging to God makes living life God’s way a desire rather than just a regulation.<\/p>\n
Do you know what I mean?\u00a0 If so, congrats!\u00a0 If not, would you like to?<\/p>\n
(This podcast is a retelling of the same idea from the December 27th podcast<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a> (Duration: 52:05 — 23.8MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why do people fall in love?\u00a0 What’s their motivation?\u00a0 I mean, why does anybody go through all the trouble of pursuing and building a love relationship.\u00a0 I’m not talking about lust and sex.\u00a0 I’m talking about people who fall head over heels and are willing to put on their best and spend their money and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[93,58,42,161,47,206,57],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons","tag-good-vs-evil","tag-joy","tag-judgment","tag-kingdom-of-heaven","tag-motivation","tag-righteousness","tag-treasure"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t