Friday, April 01, 2011

Love - V

Love is a basic human response. People need to give love and to receive love. So, all people love.

Most people love family, friends and other people they have a connection with. It is a natural reaction to return love to those who do good to you, to those who give you love and to those in your “circle of care.” The love of Jesus followers ought to go one step further.

Jesus calls us to love our enemies. To love people who seek our harm or who desire to remove anything that could benefit us.

Jesus calls us to love strangers. We should love people who ignore us, who do not have contact with us or who are new to our neighborhood, our city, or our country. People who are out of our circle, who are not interested in anything we think is important, or who have nothing in common with us.

The love that Jesus has and has put in our hearts by his spirit goes above and beyond.

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