More on the topic of l.o.v.e.

My previous post stuck with me the other night as I was trying to drift off to sleep. Throughout the Bible we are told to let love guide our lives. We are told to love not only our friends, but our enemies. We are told to love like God loves. Yet, it seems like an impossible task because I am not God and will never, no matter how hard I try be able to love like God loves. I want to love like He does... oh, how I wish I could. I want very much to love sincerely the way He does. I want to be able to look at everyone around me and no matter what they've done, simply love them. I want to be able to not only love my friends when they are doing what is right in my eye (which is very blind and judgmental if I do admit so myself), but when they are doing wrong, when they are driving me up the wall. I not only want to love my friends sincerely, but I want to love my enemies sincerely as well. I wish I could say I do not have enemies, but the truth is I do and I find it the most difficult to love them. I find it so difficult to not pull out the list I carry in my heart of the wrongs they've done to me and throw it in their face. I find it difficult to not want to hurt people back who've hurt me. I want to sincerely change and be able to love the way God loves.

Love is complicated...every single type of love because it seems to involve so much, but what does the Bible say love is? Well, lets look at 1 Corinthians13.

That's what love is and that's what God is. God is patient. God is kind. God isn't rude. He is about Himself, but at the same time He is about others, so much about others. He is not easily angered. He does not keep records of our wrongs- but forgives! He is not about evil, but is about the truth! God always protects, He always hopes, He always perseveres. And His love never ever fails. How awesome God's love is!

That's how I want to love, but I realize that I probably never will love like that...I wonder how often one can really love like God loves? I'm not sure its possible, but I hope that one day I will be as patient and kind as Him. I hope that one day I will not be rude, will think more about others than myself, will not be easily angered, won't holds people's mistakes against them, won't delight in evil, but the truth. I hope one day I can fully love like He does. What a great day that will be!