These aren’t just stories on a page that you read about.
These are real people. They are individuals who are living, walking, breathing,
and trying to find where they belong. These faces are people with real stories
and a lot of these individuals have come to be my friend.
Is it possible to come to a country for three or four weeks,
create relationships and literally fall in love with them like the love Jesus
displayed for the people He met? People you cry beside. Friendships your heart aches
for. Individuals you would give your life for. Is that possible?
What is the hardest thing about love? Everything. Love in
its entirety, what it means to be love, to have love, and to give love. Love is not this thing you ‘feel like doing’ when it suits
your needs or feels right.
“Love suffers long.
Love is patient.
Love is kind.
Love does not envy.
Love does not boast.
Love is not rude.
Love is not
self-seeking.
Love is not easily
angered.
Love does not ever keep record of wrongs.
Love does not delight
in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
Love always protects.
Love always trusts.
Love always hopes.
Love always
perseveres.
Love never fails.”
[1 Corinthians
13:4-8]
Love is a choice, not a feeling.
You need to examine your heart and question what you think
love is and then how you’re displaying this so called thing you call love.
I know first and foremost, I have much to learn about love, what
Jesus calls love and what it means to love like He commands us to.
“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have
not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbol.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries
and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but have not
love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to
the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.”
[1 Corinthians
13:1-3]
Truly no one, absolutely no one can truthfully and
wholeheartedly love like this scripture above without Jesus Christ and moving
of the Holy Spirit of G-d.
Absolutely no one.
Because love, in your own strength is finite and based on
self; what you can receive or what you can get out of what you give.
We can’t love people unconditionally and selflessly, without
loving G-d first, because He is the author of love. If we don’t know the author
of love, how the hell are we supposed to understand, comprehend, or act upon
it?
YOU CAN’T!
I am not saying I’m there and I’ve got this all figured out,
but I do know I am nothing without Jesus and apart from Him I can do nothing.
“I am the true vine,
and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no
fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit He prunes so that it be even
more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
Remain in Me and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it
must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. I am the vine; you
are the branches. If a man remains in
me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart me from me you
can do nothing.”
[John 15:1-5]
It’s time we get back in our place and realize we’re not
that big, we’re not that smart, and we don’t have it altogether.
We are not G-d. We are human beings, born into sin and
wickedness but (praise G-d!) through Jesus Christ, we can be made holy, called
sons and daughters, co-heirs with Christ and redeemed/restored as the
righteousness of G-d.
We need to return to G-d! We must surrender our lives in
every way to His purpose and plan and recognize our need for a Savior.
Jesus is crying out your name proclaiming, “Please wake up!
Please let me help you. Let me show you who I am, my purposes and my plan.”
And all you have to do is answer and call back to Him.
“We love because He
first loved us.
If anyone says, “I love G-d,” yet hates his brother, he is a
liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love
G-d, whom he has not seen. And He has given us this command: Whoever loves G-d must love his brother.”
[1 John 4:19-21]
All I want to do is love people like Jesus does. Regardless
of who they are or where they’ve been, my desire is to see people through the
eyes of the Father. To love because He articulated their very being and calls
them His own, His sons and daughters in whom HE LOVES.
So I ask myself, “How can I not?”
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