Love in it’s greatest form is unconditional.
To love someone is an act that surpasses any faults, mistakes and personal imperfections.
So many people have never known love in it’s greatest form because they have never been loved that kind of way. Being a Christian and brought up in that type of household, I have always had a sense of what love looks like. I’ve been protected, provided for and chastened as a child; yet, I never rejected this kind of love because somehow I knew it was for my own good. To me that was an example of what I later experienced on my own, which was a godly sense of love. I came to a point in my life where I was on a high search for God. No one pushed me or motivated me to go to church but I did it anyways. There is a Scripture verse that says “No greater love has any man than that he lays down his life for his friends.” To me that is just the essence of the God’s love because I looked at Jesus and realize that I needed Him. Imagine living life without your family or friends. I acknowledge some of us have had bad experiences with our families, but for the most part they were that string that helped us hold on to life. You would not have had a bed to lay on if it wasn’t for them. No place to call home. Yet, that is the love we are offered from God. Just like that, but to me His is ten times better. I’m an only child and even though people might think I have it all, I actually don’t like being an only child. I’ve had times in my life where I have been extremely lonely and desperate for someone to talk to or hangout with. Someone to always be around. Because of this loss of companionship, I became highly sexually active. It became my drug for years. I never got into anything else, that was just my thing. So anyways, in one of the most loneliest times of my young life, I began to read my Bible and praying more. It was like a sudden thirst for more out of life and I’m glad that I had a Christian foundation because I could have gotten into a lot of other things that could have messed me up really bad. Prayer became like my socializing tool and I got very close to God this way. I would never forget how talking to God would make me feel. Even to this day, I feel peace and just a high level of comfort from it because dealing with a lot of the stresses of becoming a man I need Him now more than ever. God has offered me forgiveness and every other blessing you can name. At this point of my life, I feel like I have never experienced anything like the kind of love God has to offer me when I am openly honest with Him. We have the ability to love, but our heart’s capacity is but so deep. We should always acknowledge that people are just humans. We are not perfect creatures, so sometimes it is hard to forgive and hard to look pass something someone has done to you. Even the things they do now and habits they have. I never want someone to feel like I’m judging them because I know if I was under the microscope, I would be in a deep hole for the wrongs I have done to others. Everybody isn’t a saint but by rejecting people it doesn’t make any of us more of a saint. Truth is, love is simple when you learn what it is. The greatest form of love can always be found in God.That should always be your example of how to love and what it feels like to be loved.
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