L-O-V-E

"What the world needs now is Love sweet love ..it's the only thing that there's just too little of"
-J.D

You know what I've come to realize?? That there are really very few people in this world (even among our friends -believe it or not) who truly love. Ask yourself if you love as you should and you will find yourself falling short.

Why is loving one another such a hard thing?

Because it takes being selfless.

It takes being uncomfortable.

It takes putting the other person above ourselves and wanting their good instead of our own.

It takes time.

It takes effort.

It takes being vulnerable.

It takes pain (guaranteed)

It takes willingness to be hurt and choose not to hurt in return.

It takes sacrifice.

It takes going against the crowd.

It takes standing up for what is right.

It takes loving like Jesus Christ loves us and it is IMPOSSIBLE to love, and I mean, truly love one another without Christ because this love is indeed supernatural.

Don't fool yourself into thinking that loving one another like this just comes naturally. Sure, as you love God it'll start to come more naturally because of God's love and power working in and through you but rememember that it is a CHOICE to love. We choose to love past each other's imperfections because if God has forgiven us who are we to hold it against each other??

God loves us so much and we can be secure knowing His love will always be there. Do our loved ones know that of us?? Or do they need to fear that our love is dependent on their performance or success in life??



"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required"
-Luke 12:48

(We have been given much love, we are to give equally as much or more love to others)



"Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little"
-Luke 7:47

(We know how much has been forgiven of us. Only you know how dark you can be without God. This should make you love another like God has loved you)



"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins"
-1 Peter 4:8

(Nothing the other person has ever done or been should repulse us enough that we cannot love them because if God had had the same reaction toward us we would have no salvation, no hope)

LOVE AS YOU HAVE BEEN LOVED. AGAPE LOVE
~John 3:16 & 1 John 3:16~

<3 Lisa