Love

This is something that has been on my heart for a while. The past few months, God has been showing me what it means to love someone. This is not just the kinda love you have for a boyfriend or husband. I'm talking about everyone... dads, moms, sisters, brothers, friends, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, along with boyfriends and husbands.

Love isn't just about being around a person, and enjoying their company, or you like who they are as a person, and they don't annoy you... and don't do anything "wrong" and are just perfect! Just a little news flash.... only one is perfect! So if you think someone is perfect, they really aren't. You are probably seeing them for who you want to see them as. God is the only one who is perfect. Love is loving someone for who they really are. Even tho they do things you don't like, or something that annoys you, you still love them. Just think of what Christ did. He came down, to be with us who hated him. He even died for us... took our place on the cross! Now don't get me wrong. I am one of the worse when it comes to loving others. If someone does something against me, or something I think is "against" me, let's just say you don't wanna be on my bad side. And I'm talking little things too. For example, if I ask my brother to fix me a drink, and he says no... well let's just say I don't show him the love he deserves. But do we deserve love after all?

No we don't, but God showed us grace by sending his only son to die in our place... loving us the way we don't deserve.

I like what it says in Matthew 5:43-48;
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rian on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

As believers we must be as Romans 12:2 says, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may descern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." People in the world love one another, right? But we must love even when wrong is being done to us, pray for those who do so! If you get annoyed with some little thing someone is doing, so what! Love them anyways... extend grace to them!

1 Corinthians 13 says;"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoings, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child. I thought like a child, I reasonded like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

This is something I really need to work on. Loving others. If you think about me, please pray that God will give me the grace I need to work on this.

In closing I'd like to leave one more verse. 1 John 4:16."So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him."
God is love. And what an amazing God he is?!