Love like Jesus means suffering.
It means laying your self, your dreams and hopes on the altar day after day
It means taking God's promise and giving it back to Him, selflessly
It means recognizing that no person in the world is yours to hold on to
Trusting God to provide your every need,
Walking by faith
Love like this is hard.
Love that gives everything and expects nothing
Love that always hopes, even in the deepest night
This love moves in faith, not feeling
It seems to care too much
But the shallows are only stirred as by a whisper of a breeze
Love like this means accepting that
People die, disease destroys, hunger cripples, disaster strikes, poverty cries...
and God is still good.
Trusting that His sovereign plan is greater than mine
Trusting Him with the hearts and lives of those closest to me
Love like this means reaching out-
Beyond my comfort beyond my circle-
touching filthy and hopeless, hugging broken and sickly, serving the least,
listening for the small unheard overlooked voice
...and loving.
Love that requires so much-
how is it possible?
How deep the Father's love for us
How vast beyond all measure
That He would send His only Son
and make this wretch His treasure
Let Him love you.
Share His love-
overflow with it.
Let love be the anthem of your life, song of your heart, and joy of your smile.
I am deeply, unconditionally, inexplicably. powerfully
LOVED by my Jesus.
Abiding in Him, out of that truth, I love.
And His love never fails.
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& you should read 1 John 4:7-19
Learning to love learning to love.
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