Karate in Love

What does love have to do with karate?

Can love exist without action? Isn’t it enough to just feel love without any action to follow through?

“If you love me, keep my commandments.”

I saw this scripture when I was newly born again and the truth and simplicity in these words stunned me. It’s quite simple, if you say you love God, you must keep His commandments.

I was talking to my pastor Michael the other day and he said,

“Do you truly, really believe that God loves you?”

“Yes.”

“How do you know?”

“Uh, He died for me, He answers my prayers.”

“So He did something, He showed you His love by doing.”

“Yes.”

Can love exist without action?

Sometimes, people can feel strongly towards another person and yet, take no action towards that person.

But then, we cannot call it love. It’s just feelings. Why? Talk is cheap.

When we ask ourselves if someone really loves us, we don’t think about the flowery words, we think about the thoughtful gestures and actions, the sacrifices they made on our behalf, the things they did for us not for themselves.

That is love.

As someone who struggled to develop emotions as a teenager, love was an abstract thing that I knew I had inside of me. Example, I love my family right? I love God too.

When the actual feelings began to rise inside of me, it was a huge achievement and it felt like that was enough. I mean, the love must be pretty deep for me to actually feel it abi?

But love is not just feelings.

Maybe for me it was progressive. But the standards remains the same.

There’s no love that’s stronger and purer than God’s love so if His love does, then our own love must do.

We show God we love Him by keeping His commandments.

We show people we love them also by our actions.

Talk is cheap!

Our love must constantly be in action mode every single day. Our love must fight karate and jujitsu like Jackie Chan, Jason Statham, and Keanu Reeves all the time.

Even Hollywood understands this. That’s why all the John Wick and Taken movies are always about love fundamentally, love for our kids, our spouses and others.

In all this, the love we show for God is most important.

Let everything we do for God be done out of love and not obligation. It makes all the difference. If we are cleaning the church, in the choir, in the Prayer Team, in whatever capacity, our motivation should be love always.

Our love must pow, chop, dice, kick, and blast if it really is love.