How important is it for us as Christians to love?
Years ago, I volunteered with a small drama team. What I found interesting was, if a part called for anger, that was really easy to pull off. Other emotions, however, were not as readily available.
Anger is easy, love is hard. Anger is readily available inside us, love has to be brought to the surface.
Reading Revelation 2:1-4 (NIV)
To the Church in Ephesus
"To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands. I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place."
Anger is easy, love is hard. But even as Jesus looks on this church that is zealous for the truth, he flat out told them he would remove their church (and it's effectiveness) from its place if they did not repent and start loving again.
Jesus loved the world enough to die for it, should we do any less?
