Our Advent theme this week is “love.” There’s hardly a more wonderful and frustrating subject in the world…with the exception of church music . Like studies on prayer and evangelism, I find studies on love heart-warming, challenging, convicting and frustrating. There is much joy in loving and being loved but love is multi-dimensional. There’s God’s love for us to consider, a love bigger than we can comprehend. Then, there’s our love for God to consider. It is the Great Commandment after all—to love the Lord our God with all our being. Wow, my love for Him is often quite fickle. I’m sure glad His love for me is stronger than death itself. Lastly, and most difficult is our love for one another. Loving other people is hard sometimes, especially if what we are telling people is that they should always feel “loving” toward others. Love includes feelings but sometimes my emotional tank is empty and I don’t feel like I have anything left to give. I even want to care but I find myself unable. That gets compounded with guilt over not caring and then the enemy closes in on my spiritual jugular vein with accusations about what a lousy apprentice I really am. Ever have days like that? Ugh! Maybe what we need is an accurate definition of biblical love and some practical ways that such love really works for human beings. Romans 12:9-21 is (to me) an even more powerful and intimidating description of biblical love than the one in 1 Corinthians 13. I realize that what the Spirit has given us there is beyond us without His help. We must have His assistance or we are incapable of that kind of love. Even when we understand love and try to give and receive love as a reflection of Him, we are going to have some frustrations with this. We are, after all, human beings with finite minds, views and abilities. I don’t believe that God has asked us for something we are incapable of doing. I believe every human being has the capacity to receive God’s love, to love Him in return and to love others as He has described. I pray this last message of Advent will help us understand and continue to improve our love more and more.