I am currently
reading through Praying for Your Future
Husband by Robin Jones Gunn and Tricia Goyer. At the end of the second
chapter, “Pray for His Heart”, one of the questions they asked is “How has your
idea of what love is changed?” to which I (to my surprise) responded:
I have learned
that Love is NOT a feeling, but it can be felt. It is beyond measure, cannot be
contained, and has a mind of its own. It is not evil and it is not pain, but it
hates evil and endures pain. Love is, at its core, selfless, and seeks to
express itself in whatever way it can show that it is alive and well. It does
not force itself on those it longs to reach out to, but it still reaches out,
even if it is not wanted. Did I mention Love is selfless? It calls us, challenges
us to do crazy things like pray for others even when we don’t see any good
coming out of it. It causes us to think positively towards those who have hurt
us. It causes us to live selflessly toward those we are sure will never take
notice. It causes us to hope for the most out-there things and actually believe
them to be attainable dreams.
Love is Who God
is and what He has called us to be, toward Him, toward others.
As I read over
all of this the day I wrote it, I saw that the pieces of Scripture that I had repeatedly
read this past semester of school had
come to life for me, and I rejoiced in the power of God’s Word.
Today after
re-reading my answer, I saw something else, something that touches me deeper
than I could have hoped for: I saw that these past four month, during which I now see God was teaching me this lesson-- as painful,
lonely, and crazy as they were-- were worth
it.
And so my challenge
to you, reader friend, is to love Christ and love others every day. It is worth
it because He is worth it :D
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