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Love is a word people carry around lightly. We say we love food, schedules, comfort, and even certain versions of ourselves. But when the New Testament speaks about the love of Jesus, it does not treat love as a mood or a personal preference. It treats love as a way of living, a way of seeing people, and a way of choosing what to do next, even when it costs something. That is why “the love of Jesus” does not stay inside church walls. It presses into ordinary days, into d

There is a moment that comes for many people in the faith journey, sometimes quietly and sometimes with real emotional weight, when you realize you cannot keep driving the same way and still call it surrender. You might still pray. You might still attend. But inside, you sense that you have been holding the wheel with a death grip, insisting that if you release control, something terrible will happen. Surrendering to Jesus sounds gentle in church language. In lived life,