Going Viral with God's Love

Song Title: Love is the Movement
Artist: Switchfoot
Album: Learning to Breathe
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This week at church there was a video about going viral. The challenge in the video was to think about how we can become a part of making Christ go viral and how do we promote Christ using viral means (social media, internet).

This video brought to mind the song Love is the Movement by Switchfoot. Here we're told that love moves, love changes, love stirs. If we want to love or grow in love we must move, we must change, and adapt to let love in, to let love out, and to let love spread. If love moves in us it will be catching. It will go viral.

Many of us are stuck in our lives, stuck in the way we do things. We have enough friends, so we don't reach out. We're too busy, so we're locked into what we do. We're too tired, so we don't give energy to anything else.  We sometimes run the risk of living static, stagnant lives. As the song challenges us to do "Get up, get up Love is moving you now", and once we're moving "We don't have to slow back down."

Where are you stuck in your life? How can you get unstuck? What will it take?

How does Gods love move and grow in you? How have you shown love lately? What does love mean to you? How are you changing so that you can love more, love others, love even those that don't love you? What can you do, what can you change to love better?

What can we do or change together (family, group, church, community) to love more? How can you love so much that it goes viral and catches others and causes their hearts to stir and open up to God's perfect gift of His love.

The greatest gift that we can give is love, our love for others and sharing the love of God. Pray that God will get you unstuck and will open your heart to love more and in more ways than we can imagine, and use that to gather up others in His love. Let's make God's love GO VIRAL! Get up! Get up! Love is moving you NOW!

Interestingly, the name of the song has been adopted as the slogan for a philanthropic organization. "To Write Love on Her Arms" is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.  TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. What a fitting song for those that need hope, for without love there is no hope, and with God's love we find our greatest hope.