Tuesday, January 10, 2012

You Love them, but you don't like them

I have started listening to different speaks and in order to grow in deeper understanding I outline and share with who ever reads this.
Beth Moore Loving Difficult People Part 1

I don't like them people way, but I love them the God way. Have you ever had to love someone that God has called you to, but you really can't stand them.

7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Sonb into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 19We love because he first loved us. 20If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. 1John 4:7-21

God is Love. He love us first and so how can we hate our brothers.

Are we loving people well? The wicked heart that have allowed to last far to long.

1But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. 2 Tim 3:1-5

What we have in the end. What kind of person do you want to be? Where do we grow our bonds with people.

My thoughts about this subject:
I could never love anyone perfectly and often I come up way short of what the Lord has asked me. Have you ever thought about why you were given ears, eyes, and a mouth. Not to cut people down, but to encourage, to listen to the hurting, and look for those in need. Sin entered into the world a long time ago, but if we really know Jesus would our hearts and thoughts be what they are today.

Yesterday I found myself asking myself and only myself do I love God the way I want other people to love God. Do I put Him where I should in order to raise the bar for someone to put God where he should be. On my knees I went. Love God love people was my status on facebook the other day. People liked it and commented on it and the first thing I said is why do they like it, they are not loving at all.

Judged them didn't I. Show them you beatcha. To love people the way God loves them and no the way you like cheese or rabbits is life changing. Its a start of a movement. Love changes people's lives, it changed mine and it could change someone that you don't really care fors life.

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