130903 How does your life represent love?: “Love suffers long and is kind..1Cor 13:4” When you think of love, what comes to mind? Is it a warm and fuzzy feeling? Is it that puppy-love feeling? How we treat others really defines what our definition of love is. Love really isn’t a feeling at all. It is actually a verb. Love is something we do. Look at how 1Corinthians 13:4 starts out: Love suffers long and is kind. When it comes to how you love others, are you kind? Do you tell your spouse or children you love them and then make it a point to decapitate them later with your words and actions daily? I have a friend who’s 20+ year marriage is on very shaky ground and crumbling. He said his wife has become the most mean, nasty and hateful person he has ever met. He said he feels like she wakes up every day with no other purpose than trying to destroy him with her hateful words and actions. He said he has even prayed for God to take his life because he knows God hates divorce. Now you may read that and say “I’m glad I’m not like that person!” Let me pop some prideful bubbles; we’ve all been that person at some time. The question is are we that person all the time? Ask yourself, “Am I a mean, nasty and spiteful person a regular basis?” I wonder how often we inventory what we do and say to those around us? Try this observation. How do people react around you? Are there those who use to seem to love your presence, but now act like you are their thorn in the flesh? Being unkind and nasty to people, especially those closest to us, rapidly builds a wall of resentment. But that wall can easily be torn down through repentance and forgiveness. We should all be praying for the Holy Spirit to help us live a life that represents God’s love towards others. And we should pray for the Holy Spirit to crack us over the head when we don’t! What type of love do people see in you? Do you represent Christ’s love at all? Pray for the Love of Christ to shine through you and make it a point to be kind as well as loving toward others.“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you..Eph 4:32” Chaplain Doni Col 3:17
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:07:09 +0000
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