{"id":744,"date":"2019-08-09T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2019-08-09T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T19:51:00","slug":"the-opposite-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Opposite of Love\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHusbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.\u201d  Ephesians 5:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Applying God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God not only blessed me with the gift of marriage, but also blessed me with two incredible wives, Joanne and Louise.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week is the anniversary of Joanne\u2019s death. Hard to believe that she has been gone five years.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was during my marriage to Joanne that God revealed that love is not a feeling, but rather a decision. Therefore, I started making more decisions to love Joanne. That attitude has accompanied me into my marriage to Louise.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though Joanne is gone, keeping her memory alive is a decision that I make and a sign of my love.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is selfishness.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is love a feeling or a decision for me? Am I making decisions to love my family and friends?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cHusbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.\u201d Ephesians 5:25 Applying God\u2019s Word God not only blessed me with the gift of marriage, but also blessed me with two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=744\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}