Smart Love

Smart love begins with the desire for God's best, and, by default, requires a knowledge of and a willingness to obey God's rules. Smart love is revolutionary; its object is God and others, never self. As describes as against the backdrop of your own form practice of (what else?) "dumb love": "Sometimes you are primarily interested in what you could get, such as the popularity a girlfriend or boyfriend could give you, or the comfort and pleasure you could gain physically or emotionally from a relationship.... If you lived 'dumb love'--choosing what felt good for you instead of what was good for others and what pleases God." He follows this admission with two piercing questions:


-Does love motivate the guy who sleeps with his girlfriend when it will scar her emotionally and damage her relationship with God?


-Does sincerity motivate the girl who leads a guy along then breaks up with him when she finds someone better?


The answers are obvious. Smart love is a sincere, God-focused love that is concerned for others. Dumb love, on the other hand,is self-centered and flirtatious. Unfortunately, little to nothing is
being said to teenagers about smart love these days, even in church. Many lives and homes have been damaged, or devastated, due to the neglect of smart love.