The first time I held a PlayStation DualShock controller in my hands, it felt pretty foreign to me… it featured a dramatically different layout than my N64 or any of my Sega consoles, with dual thumb sticks replacing my previous reliance on directional pads. But I quickly found that my ability to play many of my games was not only changed, but dramatically improved by a control scheme that has now become a standard across platforms. The modern adventures I play now would be either incredibly difficult or impossible on the controllers I used in the past… it took a company redefining the way we play the game to make new genres of gameplay possible. 

Showing the “love of Christ” to others isn’t just difficult when defining it by our human standards of love… it is impossible. His caliber of love that requires us to die to our own desires and bless even our enemies doesn’t come naturally to us, and demonstrating it requires us to submit our emotions to a new control scheme… His Spirit in us, guiding our thoughts and controlling both our words and our deeds. The quality of love that we’re commanded to show others isn’t based on warm feelings of affection, but on our selfless actions. Let’s raise our definition of love to the His level today… the only version of love in this world that will never fail or let us down is His.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:34-35

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