Love is suppose to elementary for Christians right?
But to be honest with you, I think most of us suck at it.
I think that because it is suppose to characterize every daughter and son of God,
we are often embarrassed to admit that we just do a plane ol lousy job at it.
Bear with me friends, because believe me, I am speaking to the mirror here.
We have been loved with an extravagant, self-sacrificing love, and yet, personally
I find that it is usually a very shallow version of this love that I reciprocate to those around me.
Why are we satisfied to love people with anything other then (pardon the cliche)
CRAZY, STUPID LOVE.
The kind that makes people question our sanity, yah know,
the reckless kind that Jesus both preached and lived by.
Do you day dream about how you can love on people (family, friends, the sub-way guy, the girl at the smoothie shop) ??
Do you wake up excited for the day
because you get the chance to actually be the hands and feet of Jesus by extravagantly loving on those around you?!
God has been doing that in me lately and well….its something I haven’t really ever experienced before.
Its a love I don’t comprehend.
Too many of us are asking the wrong questions in life. We ask about our standard of living, what job we should hold, what ministry we should work and the like before we ask ourselves why we are living?
You see, we have been asked by our Papa to do two things….
Love the Lord your God with all your heart soul strength and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.
But truth is you can’t ever love like Him, unless you first encounter His love on a personal note.
So have you?
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P.S. Meet my new team for our month in Thailand!
Blog to come soon!
