We Have Lost Our Whoppers

Burger King got it wrong, again.

For over 40 years they told us, “Have it your way.” Really? How does that work if everyone has it their way? Seems challenging, if not wrong. Then great news in 2014, they announced a change in their little ditty. No longer “Have it your way” but “Be your own way.” Hmmm? Burger King said in a statement that the new motto is intended to remind people “they can and should live how they want anytime.” What, have we all lost our Whoppers? No wonder things seem so challenging, our burger joints are creating our cultural philosophy!

Let’s try to think biblically for a moment. This is not a ditty, this is truth: “God-like living requires God-like loving.”

God-like loving has nothing to do with self-wants, self-desires or having it your way any time you want. God-like love is other-centric. The Apostle John understood the love of God may be like no other human. John tells us “God is love.” Not “love is God;” rather, everything God is and everything God does is loving. So to understand real love, we must understand how God loves.

I John 4:9-10 says, “In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

Love became visible by the actions and choices of God. Love becomes visible to others when you and I act in the same God-like manner. How does this God-like love act?

1. Love is willing to sacrifice: “God sent his only Son into the world.” Have you sacrificed something for another?

2. Love seeks to improve the well-being of another: “so that we might live through him.” Have you been about the well-being of another or just your way?

3. Love meets a real need of another: “sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” Man’s greatest need was payment for sin, so have you recently met a real need of another?

When God loves, He loves well. God-like living requires God-like loving.

The next move is yours.