It’s almost midnight, and one of the last things on my mind now is sleeping! Checklists are finish a movie (Confessions of a Shoppaholic - nice one so far), finish some id card designs, try to finish a brochure design (with like 4 or 5 others including a magazine for church - more of coverpage left), try to work on a friends website (men, the guy’s breathing down my neck), try to learn somethings, try to plan for tomorrow… definitely scarey…u can tell am going to bed tired!

A few minutes ago, I was in a chat with a friend, and he was ‘over encouraging’ me to get into a relationship (yeah the emotionally creepy stuff - just kiddin oh, it’s one of the coolest things to be in), so that kinda ‘inspired’ me to do a pre-writeup on what I may properly outline in a bigger post soon. I told him when the right person has her ‘timing’ coinciding with mine we’ll…story story story

But as strong and interesting as erotic love may be, that’s not my major focus in this post. We all live our lives entering and exiting all kind of relationships and networks, platonic, deep and many somewhere in between. Most of us want to avoid trouble, and so we keep to our comfort zones, and even when we see friends or acquaintances in need of something or the other, we just leave them to themselves.

Now this gets worse in settings where the person in need has done something to hurt you directly or indirectly, you’ll go something like, “I’m not hurting this person so nobody should criticise me for not going out of my way…” But (agape) love’s demands are higher than this.

The real standards are loving those that are seemingly undeserving of it, loving in situations where you should (or think you should) be excused, loving at the risk of being humiliated and embarassed, loving to the point where it kinda hurts - this is the beauty of it. Your righteousness must exceed that of the ‘Pharisees’. Truth is if you a Christian (i.e. you have a relationship with Jesus), there’s unbelievable love wrapped on your inside, but you’ve got to let it out of your tough, self-seeking frame. The fruit of the Spirit is Love so we need to submit ourselves more to God’s dealing to love better (Do they still do that magazine sef?)

We need to realize that this is the weapon that will always work and stand the test of time. We need to take action based on our love motivation. I was commenting on a friend’s blog recently. She determined to love within her environment until she changed the world (or the nation). Fair enough…but love may also cause you to do things that are not so nice like criticisms and all. A mother whipping her child to correct him is carrying out a ‘violent’ action but the motivation is love. Genuine love will produce boldness to save those we love from iminent danger. Genuine love for the people will produce hatred for the ‘anti-peopleness’ (yeah, I know I’m not Soyinka, I coin am anyway). Genuine love for God will produce hate for ungodliness - Jesus whipped money changers out of the temple because of His love for the Father. He did not only love righteousness, he hated iniquity, and he translated it into action.

Love is the greatest virtue a human can possess, but the degree to which that love has been cultivated is the degree to which it will motivate and cause us all to make the difference that is required everywhere we find ourselves. Love is not just sending cards and text messages (that’s cool by the way esp. the texts - trust me now) lol. But love is tough, love doesn’t fail, love will cause you to go many extra miles and cause you to achieve and become more of a blessing than would have ever imagined. Love will help you reach out beyond your temperaments and natural dispositions. Love will be willing to go to the cross and worse like somone said (I think Max Lucado - I need to read a book oh), it’s love that kept Jesus on the cross not nails…

Gat to go for now… Is your Love an action thing (whether to your fellow human being, spouse, brother, sister, friend…) Is your Love level pushing you into things that you ordinarily would have shied away from? Is it squeezing more of the good and great stuffs inside you out to be a blessing to others? How is your Love life? Damn! electricity’s cut off (yeah right, Down NEPA!!! I don’t care if it’s national TV so much for all my plans…putting on the gen again isn’t a very welcome idea at this time oh)…ok they brought it back oh UP NEPA! #lightUpNigeria sha

Anyway hope you’ve not forgotten the post; Is your Love Radical?