Don't Waste Your Love

September 20, 2026

Dr. Martin Luther King said, “Love is the most powerful force in the universe,” and that is true, not just because he said it, but because Jesus said the same thing in God’s Word when He gave us the two greatest commandments: Love God and love your neighbor. If everyone truly loved this way, we would not need jails, weapons, or courts, because love never fails. Psychologists tell us we are hardwired with six universal emotions, joy, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, and surprise; and left uncontrolled, every one of them can crash into something destructive. Think of those emotions as planes constantly taking off from every home, office, and school. Without a control tower, they will eventually crash. Love is meant to be that control tower for your soul, because the only place with no love at all is hell. 1 John is called “The Love Book” since John uses the word love 46 times in five chapters. In 1 John 2:15–17, he shows us how not to waste it. Anything you love more than God, or instead of God, is wasted love.