When Love Stops Being a Feeling and Becomes a Superpower

What if we've got Love all wrong?

I don't mean the romantic comedy version or even the warm-fuzzy family kind. I'm talking about the Love that Jesus demonstrated when he walked up to a tomb where his friend had been dead for four days and said, essentially, "Nope. Not today."

This week's lesson isn't about getting more love or being more lovable. It's about realizing Love—capital L—is the ground you're already standing on.

The Bible lesson starts with the simple statement "God is love." Not "God loves us" (though true), but God IS Love. That's not poetry; that's physics. If Love is the fundamental nature of reality, then everything unlike Love—fear, hatred, sickness, death—is basically arguing with the universe itself.

Take the Lazarus story. Jesus didn't beg God to pretty please bring his friend back. He thanked God before anything visible happened. Why? Because he wasn't operating from the premise that death was real and Love might win. He knew Love already had won, was winning, would always win.

The lesson from Science and Health puts it this way: "Truth has no consciousness of error. Love has no sense of hatred. Life has no partnership with death." This isn't denial—it's recognition of what's actually true.

When Paul and Barnabas got stoned and driven out of town for teaching this stuff, they "were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit." That's not masochism. That's the practical result of being "clad in the panoply of Love"—when you know what's real, human hatred literally cannot reach the real you.

Here's what I find fascinating: this isn't about becoming a better person so Love will notice you. It's about waking up to the Love that's already holding everything together, including you, especially when everything looks like it's falling apart.

The shift isn't from unloved to loved. It's from trying to manufacture love to recognizing you're already swimming in it.