You love people. Good. But do you love them as much as you should? Do you love them as much as Jesus did?
Jesus was WITHOUT sin, and therefore had an entire life of love to pour out to the world.
You are WITH sin, and therefore are held captive from our ability to love.
You hold grudges, you hate people, you do violence to one another and yourselves. We slander our selves, each other and God, by the way we live and the things we say.
We put ourselves first.
That's why we think love is this pretty thing of rose peddles, candles, teddy bears and hugs.
It's when you repent of your anger against others and God, grudges, hate of yourself, that you really find a place where you can start LOVING people.
Fact is love is hard. It's picking someone up, dusting them off and slapping them to get them to move. It's telling someone not to be stupid with they're life (even at the risk of offending them). It's putting others before yourself, even to the point of death.
Loving people enough to realize that you're NOT (actually) that important (in the grand scheme of things). Realizing you can't be all things to all people, but knowing that if you ARE who God called you to be, then you will have the ability to SPEAK to all people.
Repent.
Give up those things which are holding you captive.
Ask God to point out areas of you're life that you are un-repentant of.
Submit to Godly authority.
It's THEN that you'll start to begin to see what love is REALLY like.
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