Love will find you where you are...
God’s love knew everything
And still came
Conditions.
I love people with them.
That as long as they don’t mess up, leave, or fail in anyway we’re good to go
I love things as long as it won’t cost too much
I’ll spend money on that new car, plane ticket, or job opportunity as long as they do what they say their going too.
I “love” things.
I love snow until it gets too cold or winters been to long then I complain and want summer
My love is so fickle.
So broken and changing,
I say I love so many things but when it comes down to dying for them I’d much rather give them up
Obviously love has been something I have thought about reading 1 Corinthians 13
Thinking about sharing with others…Haiti in 15 days
I was thinking about when I was saved this morning, going back to that church camp in fifth grade when I knew that there was something about how others there were living
What drew me to them?
Aside from the 3 or 4 people I had come up the mountain with from home, I really didn’t know anyone there.
Yet in that place God spoke to my heart and lead me to his home.
Love without knowing…
I’m going to Haiti in 15 days and so many times I think of going on trips like this as an easy way to share my faith because no one knows me there.
It could in all reality be a drop and go service,
I show up tell them the gospel in 5 easy points and check out, come home to living my own little life again right?
But Why???
What’s the point in that?
The people who honestly have shown me love never leave; they have seen me at my absolute worst and still accept me. They welcome me day by day no matter how inadequate I feel and regardless of the choices I’ve made.
Going to Haiti and dropping a few lines is the last thing I want to do
What is the gospel in my life if I refuse to live it daily?
I can say all the rights, I can claim belief in something so strong I could move mountains; I can give everything I own and empty my bank account…
What is it worth without love?
What is it worth without God who is love?
Let no debt remaining outstanding except your obligation to love
How do I share with others who I have no idea what they’re past or present circumstances are? What if they’re worse than me?
The point it all this being
I want love; I want meaning in my relationships
I long to show others love by allowing the love of God in my life
By how I treat them
I long to live the gospel
To show that I live loving only because I was first loved
If God who is perfect and sinless can love me fully knowing every wrong move I’d make and how stubborn I’d be…
Let love be my motivation to love others.
For we know and rely on the love God has for us
