does not seek its own

Is life not just a daily lesson in love? This central theme of the Bible seems to have recently seeped into every corner of my existence. From disaster relief work in Ica to living with 4 new roommates, God is reminding me that we have been placed on this Earth to show His love and to also experience the love that He desires to give to us. It is amazing to me how He is constantly surrounding us with people that both need to feel His love through us and also those who fill our need for that same love. God tells us in His Word that the world will know we are His disciples if we love one another... how do we show this? We mourn with those who mourn and we rejoice with those who rejoice. I find it easier at times to mourn with those who are mourning, for example those who have lost everything in this earthquake, verses rejoicing with those who rejoice. I guess I am able to be happy for people, but I think at times it is just easier for me to relate to their pain. Or maybe it's because when you are in pain or difficult to understand times in your own life it is hard to understand the joy of others. However, we are not given an option here. We are not told to rejoice with others when we too are rejoicing in our own lives. The Word doesn't say you can choose one over the other, but instead in the previous verses it says "let love be without hypocrisy".

All of this is still so very difficult for me. I feel like my love is filled with hypocrisy everyday. I guess the best thing to do is just to let go of my need to "do well". My heart's cry is to have Christ's attitude and His servant nature. Please pray with me that I will learn to love and that God will get the glory.

And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. I Corinthians 13:3

Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart. I Peter 1:22

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. John 13:34

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I love ya'll!!